Coming to Terms with Environmental Justice in Outdoor Recreation: A Conceptual Discussion with Research Implications

Inequality and sustainable consumption: bridging the gaps

“…Yet there are clearly untapped potential areas of EJ research. First, there is still relatively little research on unequal access to environmental amenities and assets, although this area is currently drawing increasing attention (Floyd and Johnson 2002, Burningham and Trush 2003, Mitchell 2006. Another area where there is little systematic research is the differential ability of minority and other vulnerable groups to "live up the expectations" of public policies that seek to promote various sustainability goals but which create unequal burdens given the background inequities that prevail in the society.…”

“…The extension of empirical focus of the EJ scholarship to consumption would strengthen the linkages between it and other areas of critical social science research. This extension could involve scholarship on both material consumption -the core concern of SC scholarship -and on the consumption of intangible amenities which is only now being added to the EJ portfolio of research (Floyd and Johnson 2002, Burningham and Thrush 2003, Mitchell 2006. Moreover, some of the empirical tools such as ecological foot-printing which is commonly used in the SC scholarship would appear to fit to the orientation of empirical EJ scholarship quite well.…”

Benefit Incidence of Public Recreation Areas—Have the Winners Taken Almost All?

“…Environmental justice is a relatively new topic in the outdoor recreation literature (see, e.g., Aldy et al 1999;Floyd and Johnson 2002). Yet, undesirable, unequal provision of environmental amenities can be avoided only if distributive issues are taken into account in environmental planning.…”

A People’s History of Leisure Studies: Old Knowledge, New Knowledge and The Philadelphia Negro as a Foundational Text

“…A number of researchers have constructed a body of study for us that categorizes research on Race and ethnicity. This insight has generated a volume of research that has raised awareness and understanding on: 1) future directions of Race and ethnicity-based research (Floyd 2007;Stodolska 2000); 2) the importance of past research on Race and ethnicity (Byrne and Wolch 2009;Shinew et al 2006); 3) the impact of the past on current racialized and ethnocentric leisure (Erikson et al 2009;McAvoy 2002;Stodolska and Walker 2007); 4) increased participation or visibility of populations of color (Gomez 2002;Johnson et al 2001;Roberts and Rodriguez 2008;Stodolska and Yi 2003); 5) management approaches and implications in regards to diverse populations (Gobster 2002;Martin 2004;Shinew and Stodolska;Winter et al 2004); 6) theoretical and conceptual models for research on populations on color (Gomez 2002;Stodolska 2005); 7) racial and ethnic constraints in leisure participation and engagement (Floyd and Johnson 2002;Stodolska and Yi-Kook 2005); 8) racial and ethnic differences in gendered leisure activities (Henderson and Ainsworth 2001;Yuen and Pedlar 2009);9) racial and ethnic stratification of leisure participation (Hibbler and Shinew 2002;Lee et al 2001); 10) the impact of Whiteness on leisure conceptualization, engagement, and implementation (Arai and Kivel 2009;Kivel 2005;Long and Hylton 2002;McDonald 2009); and, presenting an international understanding of Race and ethnicity both within home countries and immigrant populations in the Global North into leisure and recreation (Burdsey et al 2013;Floyd and Gramann 1993;Ratna 2...…”