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Environmental justice: key references

Note: this page includes only a small number of key references. It is not, and is not intended to be, comprehensive. More detailed lists of references on environmental justice can be found within, for example, the 2005 report by Fairburn et al (published by SNIFFER) and the 2003 report by Beck, both of which are cited below.

Beck, S. A. Environmental justice in Scotland: How the Healthy Environment Network interpret this concept and what is happening in Scotland to address environmental injustice? NHS Health Scotland, 2003.

Curtice J. et al. Public attitudes and environmental justice in Scotland: a report for the Scottish Executive on research to inform the development and evaluation of environmental justice policy. Scottish Executive Social Research 2005

Fairburn, J., Walker, G., and Mitchell, G. Investigating environmental justice in Scotland: links between measures of environmental quality and social deprivation. Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research (SNIFFER), 2005

Friends of the Earth. Pollution and poverty - breaking the link. Friends of the Earth, 2001.

Health Protection Agency. Health Protection in the 21st Century - Understanding the Burden of Disease; preparing for the future. HPA, 2005. (Can be downloaded from the relevant page of the Health Protection Agency website)

McLaren, D., Cottray, O., Taylor, M., Pipes, S., and Bullock, S. The geographic relation between household income and polluting factories. Friends of the Earth, 1999

Scandrett, E.. Environmental justice. In Promoting health: politics and practice. Edited by L. Adams, M. Amos, and J. Munro. London: Sage. 2002.

Scandrett, E, K Dunion, and G McBride. The campaign for environmental justice in Scotland, Local Environment 5 (4): 467-474, 2000.

Scottish Executive. Choosing Our Future: Scotland's Sustainable Development Strategy. Scottish Executive, 2005.

US Environmental Protection Agency. Environmental Justice: basic information. US Environmental Protection Agency, 2003.

Walker, G. and Bickerstaff, K. Polluting the poor: an environmental justice agenda for the UK? University of London, Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College. Critical Urban Studies: Occasional Papers. 2000

Walker, G., Fairburn, J., and Bickerstaff, K. Ethnicity and risk: the characteristics of populations in census wards containing major accident hazards in England and Wales. Staffordshire University, Department of Geography. Occasional Papers, 2001

Note also: the March 2007 issue of 'Health and Place' journal was a "part special issue" on "Environmental Justice, Population Health, Critical Theory and GIS", and includes a number of relevant papers.