| Book Review | Environmental History, 12.2

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| Book Review | Environmental History, 12.2 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution. Edited by Robert D. Bullard. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books and University of California Press, 2005. xx + 393 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Paper $18.95.

Robert D. Bullard's latest edited collection, The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, poignantly makes the historical case that the long quest for environmental equity by minorities and socially and economically disenfranchised groups (nationally and locally) is one that has become almost Arthurian in its legendary failure to find justice in the supposedly democratic, humane, industrialized and globalizing societies. The fourteen essays are divided thematically into four parts: "A Legacy of Injustice," "The Assault on Fence-Line Communities," "Land Rights and Sustainable Development," and "Human Rights and Global Justice." Although most of the essays provide historical or historicized narratives, none of the authors are historians. Environmental historians are not the only scholars who can produce salient environmental histories; however, given the latest interest and scholarship in environmental justice by the discipline, the edited collection would have benefited tremendously by their contributions.

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