This book discusses whether and to what extent there are widespread injustices and inequities caused by the distribution of environmental hazards in America today.

William M. Bowen

Chapter I. Environmental Justice Administration and Policy Decisions: Context and Conceptual Prerequistes Chapter II. Some Major Terms and Concepts in the Language of Environmental Justice Chapter III. Social Scientific Methods of Inference on Environmental Justice Chapter IV. Environmental Justive Resarch Deisgns and Procedures Chapter V. The Current State of Empirical Knowledge About Environmental Justice Chapter VI. Contributions to Empirical Knowledge from Ancillary Research Chapter VII. Analysis of Environmental Justice Decisions Chapter VIII. The Use of Empirical Knowledge in Making Environmental Justice Policy and Management Decisions