Premier issue of Environmental Justice just... (and psychology. This provo...)

Premier issue of Environmental Justice just published

Date:5/14/2008

and psychology.

This provocative new publication is under the leadership of Editor-in-Chief Sylvia Hood Washington, MSE, PhD, ND, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health; Senior Editor Kenneth Olden, PhD, ScD, LHD, former director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH; and an illustrious editorial board.

With an increased knowledge of the environmental justice issues that have negative impacts on the health of our communities, community members should be able to engage in dialogue and actions that encourages and promotes environmental equity in places where inequality exist, says Editor-in-Chief Sylvia Hood Washington. Environmental equality means healthier people and healthier communities.

The inaugural issue of the Journal focuses on analyses of past and contemporary environmental compliance and enforcement, activism, and corrective actions, environmental politics, environmental health disparities, environmental epidemiology, environmental sociology, and environmental history. Mrs. Block Beautiful: African American Women and the Birth of the Urban Conservation Movement, Chicago, IL, 1917-1954 by Sylvia Hood Washington is an historical essay that elucidates the vital role that African American women played in launching the first national urban conservation movement in the United States.

Articulating the Basis for Promoting Environmental Justice in Central and Eastern Europe by Tamara Steger and Richard Filcak explores the international impact and global ramifications of the environmental justice movement and spotlights environmental justice as a global injustice and international human rights crisis.

In A Small Group of Thoughtful, Committed Citizens: Women's Activism, Environmental Justice and the Coal River Mountain Watch, Joyce M. Barry presents a contemporary oral history study of women struggling to combat environmental i
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