Environmental victims : new risks, new injustice / edited by Christopher Williams.

Includes index.

An environmental victimology / Christopher Williams -- Environmental victims and state sovereignty : a normative analysis / Peter Penz -- Reflections on environmental justice : children as victims and actors / Sharon Stephens -- The anthropology of oil : the impact of the oil industry on a fishing community in the Niger Delta / Alicia Fentiman -- The movement in Bhopal and its lessons / Satinath Sarangi -- Ecocide, industrial chemical contamination, and the corporate profit imperative : the case of Bougainville / Rosemarie Gillespie -- Environmental security and displaced people in Southern Africa / Meena Singh -- Good neighbor agreements : a tool for environmental and social justice / Sanford Lewis and Diane Henkels -- The occupational health needs of workers : the need for a new international approach / Franȯise Barten, Suzanne Fustukian and Sylvia de Haan -- Introduction to the Charter of Rights Against Industrial Hazards : for communities, workers, and protection of their environment / Barbara Dinham -- Conclusion : the dynamics of future change / Christopher Williams.

Considers the social justice and human rights implications of environmental disasters, arguing that perpetrators of these disasters should be held accountable and victims should have greater redress for their suffering. The contributors hold that for too long companies have been shielded from liability for industrial accidents and pollution that causes disease among local populations, and that such problems should be treated as questions of justice first, before they are considered as medical problems to be treated within the medical system.