Environmental Justice

A Very Short Introduction

Pamela Hill (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-763013-6 (ISBN)

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Environmental justice recognizes that environmental benefits and burdens should be distributed fairly, and that the people making policy decisions should incorporate the views of those most often harmed: people of color, Indigenous populations, low-income communities, and those who are underserved and disenfranchised for other reasons such as age, gender, or disability. It encompasses not only traditional environmental issues like clean air and clean water, but also social issues such as employment, nutrition, and access to health care. Although environmental justice is a relatively recent concept, it has become a focus of governmental environmental policy, UN actions, and the activities of many nongovernmental environmental organizations. Its development tracks our growing understanding of racism and wealth disparity in the US and elsewhere, and of our understanding of inequality between the Global North and the Global South. In the era of climate change, climate justice is a particular focus.

In an engaging and approachable way, Environmental Justice: A Very Short Introduction defines the concept, identifies specific environmental justice populations, examines root causes, including racism, capitalism, and colonialism, and traces the history of the environmental justice movement and governmental responses to it. It concludes with suggestions for achieving this elusive goal.

Pamela Hill is an environmental lawyer with more than thirty years of experience at the US Environmental Protection Agency, where she was involved in all major environmental statutes. She has taught environmental law at Boston University School of Law since 1995, as well as at Northeastern School of Law, and has lectured widely. Her previous publications include Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®.

Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
1 What is environmental justice?
2 Environmental justice populations
3 Causes of environmental injustice
4 The environmental justice movement
5 The role of government in the United States and in other countries
6 Environmental justice as an international issue
7 Climate justice
8 Can there be environmental justice?
References
Further reading
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Very Short Introductions
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	136 x 175 mm
Gewicht	136 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
ISBN-10	0-19-763013-8 / 0197630138
ISBN-13	978-0-19-763013-6 / 9780197630136
Zustand	Neuware