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Environmental Justice

Environmental justice addresses the unfair exposure of marginalized communities to environmental harms like pollution and hazardous waste. It promotes the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people in environmental policymaking, regardless of race, income, or other attributes. There are three main types of environmental justice: distributive justice concerning fair distribution of environmental burdens; procedural justice regarding fair decision-making processes; and recognition of how communities perceive and evaluate environmental changes affecting them. Discrimination, market forces, lack of citizen power, racism, industrialization, and capitalism have all been cited as causes of environmental injustice. True environmental justice requires redistributing decision-making power back to vulnerable communities and effectively sustaining justice through self-education, elevating community

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Environmental Justice

Environmental justice addresses the unfair exposure of marginalized communities to environmental harms like pollution and hazardous waste. It promotes the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people in environmental policymaking, regardless of race, income, or other attributes. There are three main types of environmental justice: distributive justice concerning fair distribution of environmental burdens; procedural justice regarding fair decision-making processes; and recognition of how communities perceive and evaluate environmental changes affecting them. Discrimination, market forces, lack of citizen power, racism, industrialization, and capitalism have all been cited as causes of environmental injustice. True environmental justice requires redistributing decision-making power back to vulnerable communities and effectively sustaining justice through self-education, elevating community

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BY: MARVIN ANGANA (BIT-2A)

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
WHAT IS
ENVIRONMENTAL • Environmental justice is a social movement to
address the unfair exposure of poor and

JUSTICE marginalized communities to harms associated with


resource extraction, hazardous waste, and other
land uses. The movement has generated hundreds of
studies establishing this pattern of inequitable
exposure to environmental harms, as well as a large
interdisciplinary body of social science literature
that includes theories of the environment and
justice, environmental laws and policies,
sustainabilty and political ecology.

• In short term, Environmental Justice (EJ) is the fair


treatment and meaningful involvement of all people
regardless of race, color, national origin, or income
with respect to the development, implementation
and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations,
and policies.
3 TYPES OF
ENVIRONMENTAL • DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE

JUSTICE • Also referred to as equity theory in


psychology, sociology and political science.
• We use interchangeably with fairness,
concerns moral preferences over the
distribution of social and economic benefits
and burdens among a group of individuals.
(Johannson-Stenman and Konow, 2009)
• Distributional justice is provides criteria for
normative judgements. This for who is to
benefit and who is to be burdened as a
result of projects, plan, and programme
decisions regarding the environment.
(Walker, 2010)
PROCEDURAL JUSTICE

• A normative judgement of the fairnes of the process of decision-making. A process of


decision-making is regarded as fair if it is based on a democratic fundament in which
all affected people have the possibility to be informed, express their opinions and
influence decisions.
• It may be relevant to evaluate procedural justice for various groups of affected
people or stakeholders (e.g. local people as as totality and/or divided into social
categories based, for instance, on ethnicity, class, gender)

SENSE OF JUSTICE

• Constitutes a third element that also is crucial to examine when studying social
impacts of changes such as those imposed by sets of policy instruments for
conservation.
• A perspective of social constructivism is implied by which a group who engages in
describing how people affected by the changes themselves perceive and evaluate the
changes.
ISSUES AND
EXAMPLES • Any environmental pollutant,
hazard or disadvantage that
compromises the health of a
community or its residents.
• Inadequate access of healthy food

• Inadequate transportation

• Air pollution

• Water pollution

• Older and unsecured houses


CAUSES OF
ENVIRONMENTAL • The environmental justice
JUSTICE literature broadly offers five
competing explanations for
environmental injustice:
• Discrimination

• Market dynamics

• Lack of citizen power

• Racism/racial discrimination

• Industrialization

• Capitalism
Environmental justice considers governmental acts of
environmental injustice, a violation of international law, the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and the
United Nations Convention on Genocide.
ENVIRONMENTALJ
USTICE
Acts of Environmental Justice
VS.
ENVIRONMENTAL • The acts which do not harm or disrespect the environment.

INJUSTICE
Acts of Environmental Injustice

• The acts which pollute, harm, and destroy our environment.


Environmental justice is important because it
is a basic human right. It allows everyone to
have some level of agency over the decisions
that impact their lives. Without environmental
justice, many people are made to be victims of
IMPORTANCE OF the plans and ambitions of others.
ENVIRONMENTAL
JUSTICE
This serves as the voice of the environment
and those who are neglected of power because
of superiority and status in life.
TRUE
ENVIRONMENTAL • This refers to redistributing decision-making

JUSTICE
power back to vulnerable communities that
are systematically impacted by environmental
racism. To attain this, there are ways to
effectively sustain environmental justice:

• Practice Self-Education

• Elevate the Voices of Impacted


Communties

• Hold your Representatives Accountable

• Use the Power of Boycott


“THE
ENVIRONMENT
AND THE
ECONOMY ARE
REALLY BOTH TWO
SIDES OF THE SAME
COIN. IF WE
CANNOT SUSTAIN
THE
ENVIRONMENT, WE
CANNOT SUSTAIN
OURSELVES.”

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