environmental justice

...Comparative scholarship that examines the intersections and tensions among animal rights, environmental justice, and climate justice movements is sorely needed because of the clear overlapping interests among these political formations and the potentially high impact of these movements converging...

.... Therefore, there are many local complaints. Since the 1980s and 1990s there has been a globalizing environmental justice movement that in its strategy meetings and practices has developed a set of concepts and slogans to describe and intervene in such conflicts. They include “environmental racism,” “popular...

...Histories of colonial expropriation and the nature of political and economic systems shape environmental justice struggles. However, inequality and capitalism are institutionalized very differently in different contexts and counties. This chapter advances scholarship on a comparative politics...

...This article examines the concept of environmental justice and its implications for criminology, criminal justice, and victimology. It first considers two different definitions of environmental justice before turning to a review of criminological studies related to environmental justice...

...Although the terms “environmental justice” and “environmental racism” emerged due to race-based mobilization in the United States, justice is a constant feature of environmental struggles around the world. Pursuing social justice in environmental advocacy can be difficult, but case studies...

...-human species responsibility for the current climate crisis—is deployed widely within Euro-Australo-American academic environmental studies and environmental politics, but has not gained political or epistemic traction in environmental justice and climate justice organizations and social movements...

...The politics of environmental justice increasingly feature in environmental governance across multiple levels. Environmental defenders risk their lives to protect land, water, and forests. Non-human actors like rivers are gaining rights. Frontline environmental justice communities now include...

..., and Indigenous peoples. Accordingly, they form countermovements of resistance, as registered, for instance, in the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice, the EJAtlas ( www.ejatlas.org ). social metabolism biomass CAFOs pesticides deforestation tree plantations hydropower wind energy The “eco-modernists...

..., there is little or no evidence for an environmental justice effect on the regulatory activity related to air pollution, as directed toward these plants. Dimensions of poverty Environmental justice General Accounting Office GAO United Church of Christ studies Demographics Environmental Protection Agency EPA...

...This chapter offers a review of the interdisciplinary literatures on electronic waste (e-waste) from an environmental justice perspective. Specifically, the author explores how e-waste reflects dynamic changes in the ways that the materiality of digital media intersects with ecological concerns...

...This chapter deals with the evolving quest to attain environmental justice. It demonstrates that there are many facets and manifestations of environmental justice—a concept that sits at the junction of legal doctrine and anthropological realities. Amalgamating these two perspectives permits us...

...This article examines the issue of environmental justice and cosmovision in transnational American studies and indigenous literature. It contends that Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead and Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera had significant influence...

... tackles this task, despite her questionable claim that “there is a dearth of studies on human-animal relations in the South African academy” (178). As Steenkamp acknowledges, Anthony Vital has suggested that a “specifically South African ecocriticism” must draw on the country’s environmental justice...

...Concepts of environmental justice and environmental sustainability have attracted steadily increasing interest amongst political theorists and political scientists in the past few decades. The explosion of interest in normative and policy dimensions of global climate change since the negotiation...

...Environmental problems raise important issues of justice when these problems affect people’s health prospects in systematically uneven ways, when people contribute to the problems in substantially unequal ways, and when the people who are affected by the problems have not been empowered...

..., caring relationships, and the sacred), on key concepts (e.g., responsibility, justice, gender, rights, ecological space, risk and precaution, citizenship, future generations, and sustainability), on specific areas of environmental concern (e.g., pollution, population, energy, food, water, mass extinction...

...The environmental justice movement has made “justice” a key concept in environmental ethics. This chapter examines what “justice” offers to environmental ethics and argues that an ecologically aware theory of justice—or “justice on one planet”—is likely to be very different from the liberal...

...This chapter surveys the origin and development of environmental justice discourse from its early use as a civil rights strategy to resist the siting of hazardous waste facilities in the neighborhoods of poor people of color to its more contemporary usage as a directive for equity in global...

..., perform, and learn. Pezzullo and Cox (2021) define environmental justice as (a) understanding environmental inequities and addressing the disproportionate burden on underprivileged communities, (b) fighting for inclusion of unheard voices and underrepresented issues in the discursive spaces of decision...