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During the decade of the 1960s a new social science discipline was created. Aaron Wildavsky, along with a small number of other scholars, began focusing their research on public policy studies and the analysis of governmental policy. This article discusses Professor Aaron Wildavsky's original interest in this field, how he institutionalized it by creating a Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and his major contributions to the emerging field. Aaron Wildavsky was one of the preeminent social scientists of the twentieth century, and this article is intended to explain why. Adapted from the source document.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- I A Framework for Analysis -- The Environmental Justice Movement -- The Social Construction of Environmental Justice -- II Environmental Injustices -- Race, Class, and Environmental Hazards -- Environmental Racism in Southern Arizona? -- Race for Water? -- The Failure to Provide Basic Services to the Colonias of EL Paso County -- III Confronting Environmental Injustices -- Environmental Justice and the Role of Indigenous Women Organizing Their Communities -- Environmental Injustices and Traditional Environmental Organizations -- IV Environmental Justice -- Environmental Injustices -- Bishigendan Akii -- Environmental Ethics as a Political Choice -- Contributors -- Index