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Research in environmental justice reveals that low-income and minority neighborhoods in our nation’s cities are often the preferred sites for landfills, power plants, and polluting factories. Those who live in these sacrifice zones are forced to shoulder the burden of harmful environmental effects so that others can prosper. Mountains of Injustice broadens the discussion from the city to the country by focusing on the legacy of disproportionate environmental health impacts on communities in the Appalachian region, where the costs of cheap energy and cheap goods are actually quite high.
Through compelling stories and interviews with people who are fighting for environmental justice, Mountains of Injustice contributes to the ongoing debate over how to equitably distribute the long-term environmental costs and consequences of economic development.
Contributors:
Laura Allen, Brian Black, Geoffrey L. Buckley, Donald Edward Davis, Wren Kruse, Nancy Irwin Maxwell, Chad Montrie, Michele Morrone, Kathryn Newfont, John Nolt, Jedediah S. Purdy, and Stephen J. Scanlan.
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Mountains of Injustice © 2011 by Ohio University Press is licensed under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Language
eng
ISBN
9780821444283
Publication Date
11-13-2011
Publisher
Ohio University Press
City
Athens
Keywords
environmental justice, Appalachia, environmental health, pollution, economic development, inequality, environmental racism, sacrifice zones, low-income communities, minority communities, rural America, energy production, coal industry, industrial pollution, environmental activism, sustainability, social justice, public health, environmental policy
Disciplines
Appalachian Studies | Environmental Health | Environmental Law | Environmental Public Health | Growth and Development | Social Justice
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Morrone, Michele and Buckley, Geoffrey L., "Mountains of Injustice : Social and Environmental Justice in Appalachia" (2011). Ohio University Press Open Access Books. 87.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/87
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