- Author(s): Nance E.
- Author(s) ID: 56578083300;
- Document Type: Book Chapter
- Publication Stage: Final
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- Page Start – 153 | Page End – 167 | Page Count:
- Cited By: 2
- DOI: 10.4324/9780429497858
- EID: Scopus2-s2.0-84925792506
This chapter introduces community-based environmental laboratories as a newparadigm for achieving environmental justice. The existing environmental justice paradigm, rooted in the ideology and methodology of the civil rights movement, has succeeded in carrying the environmental justice movement to this point, but continued progress will require a diversity of approaches. The post-disaster context of New Orleans, which simultaneously presents a long history of environmental injustice and the largest city-rebuilding effort in U.S. history, is an ideal site for observing the possibilities for community-based laboratories. © 2009 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved.
Race, Place, and Environmental Justice after Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast