Contents -- Introduction -- Environmentalism and Biocentrism -- From Environmentalism to Environmental Justice -- Understanding Environmental Injustice -- Overview of the Book -- 2 Distributive Justice, Participative Justice, and the Principle of Prima Facie Political Equality -- Overview -- The Principle of Prima Facie Political Equality (PPFPE) and Distributive Justice -- The Principle of Prima Facie Political Equality and Participative Justice -- Objections to the Principle of Prima Facie Political Equality -- How Careless Use of Science Can Encourage Environmental Injustice -- Federal versus Local Control of Siting: Balancing Equity and Utility -- A Case Study -- Conclusions -- 3 Appalachians, Access to Land, and Procedural Justice -- Overview -- Setting the Scene for the First Argument: The California Farmer -- Another Instance of Environmental Injustice: The Appalachian Farmer -- Procedural Justice and End-State Principles -- A Procedurallv Based Argument for Limiting Property Rights in Resources -- Resource Transactions. Voluntariness. and the Lockean Proviso -- Suggestions for Limiting Property Rights in Land -- Objections to the Argument -- A Second Argument tor Limiting Property Rights in Resources -- Objections to the Second .Argument -- Conclusion -- 4 African Americans, LULUs, ami Free Informed Consent 71 Reverend Coleman and the South Side -- Reverend Coleman and the South Side -- Overview -- A Case Study: Homer, Louisiana -- The Louisiana Siting Was Not Ethically justified -- Objections and Replies: An Environmentally just Energy Policy -- Objections and Replies: No Economic Need for the Plant -- Postscript -- 5 Equity and Duties to Future Generations: The Case of Yucca Mountain -- Overview -- Prima Facie Arguments for Equal Treatment -- Utilitarian Objections -- Duties to Future Cenerations -- Consent and Future Persons.

Practical and Legal Considerations Affecting justice for Future People -- Conclusions -- 6 Native Peoples and the Problem of Paternalism -- Colonialism and the Exploitation of Indigenous People: The Case of Shell Oil -- Overview -- Paternalism, Consent, and Participative justice -- The Mescalero Apache, Paternalism, and Waste Disposal -- Environmental Justice and the Mescalero -- Geographical Inequality, Distributive Justice, and the Mescalero -- History of the Nuclear Waste Issue -- Science Relevant to Nuclear Waste Problem -- Conclusion -- 7 Risky Occupational Environments, the Double Standard, and Just Compensation -- Overview -- The Double Standard -- Historical Background -- The Theory of the Compensating Wage Differential -- Arguments against the CWD -- A Case Study: Six Hundred Thousand DOE Workers -- Conclusions and Alternatives -- 8 Developing Nations, Equal Protection, and the Limits of Moral Heroism -- Overview -- The Social Progress Argument -- The Bloody Loaf Argument -- The Consent Argument and a Moral Response to It -- The Economic-Reality Argument and a Moral Response to It -- Citizens' Responsibilities for Environmental Justice -- Conclusion -- 9 Taking Action: Public Responsibility for Environmental Justice -- Overview -- Environmental Justice Advocacy -- The Tilted Playing Field -- Consequentialist Arguments for Environmental Justice Advocacy -- Deontological Arguments for Environmental Justice Advocacy -- Restrictions on Environmental-Justice Advocacy -- Practical Steps: Working with Nongovernmental Organizations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.