Environmental Justice: Legal Theory and Practice

March 2015
Citation:
45
ELR 10236
Issue
3
Author
Barry E. Hill

This Article is adapted from Barry E. Hill, Environmental Justice: Legal Theory and Practice (3d ed. 2014), published by ELI Press. This textbook/handbook explores how environmental justice concerns are framed, addressed, and resolved in the United States through acts of civil disobedience; federal, state, and local government initiatives; litigation and alternative dispute resolution; and/or mediation. The Article describes the relationship between environmental justice and sustainable development, and surveys the history of the environmental justice movement.

Barry E. Hill is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Vermont Law School, where he has taught an environmental justice and sustainable development course for 20 years. From 1998- 2007, he was Director of the Office of Environmental Justice of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The views expressed in the Article are solely those of the author. No official support or endorsement by EPA or any other agency of the federal government is intended or should be inferred.

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