The Nature of Justice

Racial Equity and Environmental Well-Being

By Buzzy Jackson

Environmental responsibility. Racial equality. Environmental justice. Social justice. How are these concepts related? The Center hopes to provide some answers in The Nature of Justice: Racial Equity and Environmental Well-Being, an anthology edited by Patty Limerick, Barry Muchnick, and Buzzy Jackson. The collection has its origins in the Center of the American West's "Justice for All" conference in 1998. Former Center staffer Barry Muchnick helped assemble this collection of writing on the environment and the project is now back in motion as we begin editorial discussions with the publisher. The Nature of Justice is much more than just another collection of nature essays, for it includes a diverse group of authors writing on the subject from previously underrepresented perspectives. From the impact of Lewis and Clark on Native Americans to the meaning of wilderness for runaway slaves in nineteenth-century America, The Nature of Justice will fill a conspicuous gap in the Nature section of your local bookstore - and we hope you'll be able to find it there by the end of 2008!