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Not business as usual: Using collaborative partnerships to address environmental justice issues
| Author: |
Fleming, C.; Hanks, K. |
| Date: |
2004 |
| Periodical: |
International City/Council Management Association Brownfields Program. 67 p. |
| Abstract: |
As chair of the federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice, I initiated these community-based, multi-agency, and multi-stakeholder collaborative projects to develop a systematic methodology for addressing the environmental, health, economic, and social concerns of communities and tribes confronting environmental justice issues. I sought to promote a broad national discourse, particularly on the part of environmental justice activists and practitioners, on what it will take to realize the vision of environmental justice and healthy communities. Such a discourse will yield great benefits on a number of levels, not the least of which is a better understanding by community activists of their own community�s assets and of ways they can act strategically to harness those resources. Moreover, the multifaceted nature of the problems in such communities will require new approaches by government, business and industry, and others to resolve. |
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