Just One Child or Quest for Environmental Justice

Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China

Author: Susan Greenhalgh

China's one-child rule is unassailably one of the most controversial social policies of all time. In the first book of its kind, Susan Greenhalgh draws on twenty years of research into China's population politics to explain how the leaders of a nation of one billion decided to limit all couples to one child. Focusing on the historic period 1978-80, when China was just reentering the global capitalist system after decades of self-imposed isolation, Greenhalgh documents the extraordinary manner in which a handful of leading aerospace engineers hijacked the population policymaking process and formulated a strategy that treated people like missiles. Just One Child situates these science- and policymaking practices in their broader contexts--the scientization and statisticalization of sociopolitical life--and provides the most detailed and incisive account yet of the origins of the one-child policy.

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Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution

Author: Robert D Bullard

In 1994, Sierra Club Books was proud to publish Dr. Robert D. Bullard's Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color, a collection of essays contributed by some of the leading participants in the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, which focused attention on "environmental racism"--racial discrimination in environmental policymaking and the enforcement of environmental protection laws and regulations. Now, picking up where that groundbreaking anthology left off, Dr. Bullard has assembled a new collection of essays that capture the voices of frontline warriors who are battling environmental injustice and human rights abuses at the grassroots level around the world and challenging government and industry policies and globalization trends that place people of color and the poor at special risk.
Part I presents an overview of the early environmental justice movement and highlights key leadership roles assumed by women activists. Part II examines the lives of people living in "sacrifice zones"--toxic corridors (such as Louisiana's infamous "Cancer Alley") where high concentrations of polluting industries are found. Part III explores land use, land rights, resource extraction, and sustainable development conflicts, including Chicano struggles in America's Southwest. Part IV examines human rights and global justice issues, including an analysis of South Africa's legacy of environmental racism and the corruption and continuing violence plaguing the oil-rich Niger delta.
Together, the diverse contributors to this much-anticipated follow-up anthology present an inspiring and illuminating picture of the environmental justice movementin the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Publishers Weekly

Bullard offers a disturbing account of the environmental and human cost of the excesses of capitalism in this follow-up to Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color. This volume takes a fresh look at the often unequal distribution of environmental hazards to poor and minority communities, examining locations from Louisiana's "Cancer Alley" to Nigeria. In part one, women activists detail their gutsy battles against the combined power of business and government when their minority neighborhoods were threatened by industrial pollution. Part two tells the stories of people (again, mostly minorities and the poor) living in "sacrifice zones," such as Cancer Alley the stretch down the Mississippi River in Louisiana where "approximately 80 percent of the total African American community in the nine parishes lives within three miles of a polluting facility." Parts three and four examine Chicano struggles in the Southwest and global justice issues, including "corrupt... petro-capitalism" in Nigeria, where deep poverty persists despite the country's oil wealth. Readers can learn much about those who pay the costs in safety and health for many of modern life's conveniences. (Oct.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xv
	Acknowledgments	xix
	Introduction	1
Part 1	A Legacy of Injustice	17
1	Environmental Justice in the Twenty-first Century	19
2	Neighborhoods "Zoned" for Garbage	43
3	Women Warriors of Color on the Front Line	62
Part 2	The Assault on Fence-Line Communities	85
4	Living and Dying in Louisian's "Cancer Alley"	87
5	Environmental Inequity in Metropolitan Los Angeles	108
6	Toxic Racism on a New Jersey Waterfront	125
Part 3	Land Rights and Sustainable Development	143
7	Anatomy of the Urban Parks Movement: Equal Justice, Democracy, and Livability in Los Angeles	145
8	Resource Wars against Native Peoples	168
9	Tierra y Vida: Chicano Environmental Justice Struggles in the Southwest	188
Part 4	Human Rights and Global Justice	207
10	Environmental Reparations	209
11	Vieques: The Land, the People, the Struggle, the Future	222
12	Alienation and Militancy in the Niger Delta: Petroleum, Politics, and Democracy in Nigeria	239
13	Environmental Racism and Neoliberal Disorder in South Africa	255
14	Addressing Global Poverty, Pollution, and Human Rights	279
Appendix A	Principles of Environmental Justice	299
Appendix B	Nongovernmental Organization Language on Environmental Racism	303
	Notes	307
	Selected Bibliography	359
	About the Contributors	365
	Index	373