Environmental justice & transportation : a citizen's handbook

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• Creators:
  Cairns, Shannon ; Grieg, Jessica ; Wachs, Martin
• Corporate Contributors:
  University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Transportation Studies ; University of California (System). Transportation Center
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Decision Making Environmental Justice Handbooks Transportation Planning Transportation Policy
• Resource Type:
  Manual
• Right Statement:
  University of California Regents
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Transportation Studies
• Abstract:
  Environmental justice is an increasingly important element of policy making in transportation. It is not specific to any mode of transportation, particular community, or single policy issue. It is fundamentally about fairness toward the disadvantaged and often addresses the exclusion of racial and ethnic minorities from decision making. The federal government has identified environmental justice as an important goal in transportation, and local and regional governments must incorporate environmental justice into transportation programs. Because ideas about justice differ between communities, local and regional governments have flexibility in how they change their policies to reflect environmental justice. Communities and local governments struggle to balance competing interests and interpretations of environmental justice. Although there is no substitute for the knowledge that can be gained over time through experience, this handbook will help those who are new to transportation decision processes influence how environmental justice is incorporated into decisions about transportation policy and projects. Various approaches to environmental justice are discussed, along with steps in the planning process when citizen involvement is particularly effective, suggestions for how environmental justice can be incorporated into a project, and legal requirements for environmental justice. This document can be down loaded as a PDF file in its entirety (1.6MB) or in segments. 32p.
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5165caf633a206cba3f2a4925b2aff68401d1e12cba1c0a5b626104e14dc1f74e66fc1ff4ff80905a72f83d9a77ada38a4ae816584f5f6398fcde66dccc55852
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/15035/dot_15035_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.64 MB ]