Making the case for community-based laboratories: A new strategy for environmental justice

Race, Place, and Environmental Justice after Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 153-167

  Nance, Earthea ^a  

^a Mayor s Office of Recovery Management   (United States)

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EID: 84925792506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780429497858     Document Type: Chapter

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