From the Inside Out
The Fight for Environmental Justice within Government Agencies
- Paperback
328 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2019
Summary
An examination of why government agencies allow environmental injustices to persist.Many state and federal environmental agencies have put in place programs, policies, and practices to redress environmental injustices, and yet these efforts fall short of meeting the principles that environmental justice activists have fought for. In From the Inside Out, Jill Lindsey Harrison offers an account of the bureaucratic culture that hinders regulatory agencies’ attempts to reduce environmental injust…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262537742 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262537745 |
| Author: | Jill Lindsey Harrison |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 446g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Urban and Industrial Environments |
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Critics Review
“From the Inside Out offers a rigorously researched and powerful narrative of bureaucratic cultural obstacles to [environmental justice] reforms, with implications that go well beyond the state and federal environmental protection agencies that are the focus of study.”
–Erik W. Johnson, Washington State University; American Journal of Sociology
About The Author
Jill Lindsey Harrison
Jill Lindsey Harrison is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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