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Article: Environmental Justice in South Africa
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- African Studies Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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GEOGRAPHY, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND DEMOGRAPHY David A. McDonald, ed. Environmental Justice in South Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press/Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press, 2002. 319 pp. Notes. Bibliographical references. Index. $59.95. Cloth. $26.95. Paper.
With contributions from academics and activists from a wide range of disciplines, this collection explores historical, theoretical, and practical engagements with South Africa's environmental justice movement in the 1990s. As David A. McDonald writes in the introduction, "At its core, environmental justice is about incorporating environmental issues into the broader intellectual and institutional framework of human rights and ...