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Mountains of Injustice: Social and Environmental Justice in Appalachia

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: Social and Environmental Justice in Appalachia

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: Social and Environmental Justice in Appalachia

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780821419809
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 11/13/2011
Edition description: 1
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Michele Morrone is a professor of environmental health and director of the Appalachian Rural Health Institute at Ohio University. She is coeditor (with Geoffrey L. Buckley) of Mountains of Injustice: Social and Environmental Justice in Appalachia and (with Nina E. Redman) Food Safety: A Reference Handbook.

Geoffrey L. Buckley is a professor in the department of geography and the Program in Environmental Studies at Ohio University. He is the author of Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910–1945 and America’s Conservation Impulse: Saving Trees in the Old Line State.

Table of Contents

Foreword Donald Edwards Davis vii

Introduction Environmental Justice and Appalachia Michele Morrone Geoffrey L. Buckley xi

Part 1 Perspectives

1 The Theoretical Roots and Sociology of Environmental Justice in Appalachia Stephen J. Scanlan 3

2 A Legacy of Extraction Ethics in the Energy Landscape of Appalachia Brian Black 32

3 Pollution or Poverty the Dilemma of Industry in Appalachia Nancy Irwin Maxwell 50

Part 2 Citizen Action

4 "We Mean to Stop Them, One Way or Another" Coal, Power, and the Fight against Strip Mining in Appalachia Chad Montrie 81

5 Commons Environmentalism Mobilized the Western North Carolina Alliance and the Cut the Clearcutting! Campaign Kathryn Newfont 99

6 Injusticein the Handling of Nuclear Weapons Waste The Case of David Witberspoon, Inc. John Nolt 126

Part 3 In Their Own Words

7 Housewives from Hell Perpectives on Environmental Justice and Facility Siting Michele Morrone Wren Kruse 145

8 Stories about Mountaintop Removal in the Appalachian Coalfields Geoffrey L. Buckley Laura Allen 161

Afterword: An American Sacrifice Zone Jedeiah S. Purdy 181

Contributors 185

Index 189

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