Additional Reading
Online Literature
-Books
Toward Environmental Justice: Research, Education, and Health Policy Needs (1999).
Authors:
Committee on Environmental Justice, Institute of Medicine
The full text can be viewed online, for free, at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/6034.html
The National Academic Press provides access to more than 3,000 books that can be read in their entirety, for free online at http://www.nap.edu.
-Reports
The 2006 Colorado College State of the Rockies Report Card
This report, produced by Colorado College, contains a detailed section on “Environmental Justice: Income, Race, Ethnicity, and Toxic Pollution in the Rockies Metro Areas.”
http://www.coloradocollege.edu/StateoftheRockies/06ReportCard.html
Environmental Justice Research Study
This report details the results of a study conducted by the Colorado Department of Transportation in compliance with Executive Order 12898, which requires each Federal agency to make achieving environmental justice part of its mission. http://www.dot.state.co.us/publications/PDFFiles/env justice.pdf
-Newsletters
“Environmental Justice Quarterly” is published by the US EPA. Current and past issues are available online at http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/newsletters/ej/ej-newsletters.html.
Library resources
The Environmental Center library, located in UMC 355, currently has 25 titles related to environmental justice. You can obtain a list of them by performing a search at http://ecenter.colorado.edu/library/opac/about.php.
On the University library homepage (http://libraries.colorado.edu), an LC Subject Heading search for ‘environmental justice’ will allow you to find books that give an overview of environmental justice, or books that describe EJ issues specific to a country or region.
