| Abstrakt: |
Many citizens and communities are continuously buffeted by forces outside of their control that can dramatically impair their quality of life. The decisions of people with little or no stake in a particular neighborhood or community — agencies of state and federal government, developers of property, leaders of multi-national industries and banks — affect the choice and affordability of the housing in which community members live, the transportation they use, the food they put on their table, the way they communicate with the outside world, the means to educate their children, the work they pursue, and, especially, their health, through the quality of the air they breathe and the water they drink. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
