Environmental Justice across the Rural Canadian Prairies: Agricultural Restructuring, Seed Production and the Farm Crisis

Hanson, Lorelei L.

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“…Yet, existing studies have not conducted in-depth analyses on the distribution of cost and benefit related to rural environmental treatment among different stakeholders, even though some might be beneficiaries, while others are victims [ 42 ]. Hanson argued that an overall high efficiency does not guarantee equality [ 43 ]; instead, in the overwhelming majority of cases, unbalanced distribution results in environmental inequalities [ 44 ]. For example, considering products/services that are harmful to the environment, the poor often take greater environmental risks to achieve cost-effectiveness, and are unable to enjoy the benefits of environment-friendly products/services [ 45 ].…”

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The Sharing of Costs and Benefits of Rural Environmental Pollution Governance in China: A Qualitative Analysis through Guanxi Networks Perspective

Liu

Shi-peng

Zhou

2022

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Concern has been expressed in many parts of the world that community relations in rural areas are breaking down, making issues such as rural environmental degradation harder to resolve without external regulation. Guanxi is a specific Chinese idiom for characterizing social networks, as a broad term to represent existing relations among people, which can be loosely translated as ‘‘relationship’’. Based on a case study of an underdeveloped mountainous area of Southern China, this paper examined the problem from the perspective of guanxi, and explored the impacts of internal group differentiation catalyzed by pig farming pollution and the subsequent influences on the distribution of costs and benefits of different shareholders. It was found that the guanxi in the village were changed from blood relationship centered to economic interest centered. This disparity exerts a significant influence on the distribution of costs and benefits of pollution control and exacerbates environmental inequalities. This means that pig farmers dominated the narrative of pig farming pollution, while the ordinary villagers chose to suffer without protesting, which hinders the advancement of pollution control, and pig farmers took the benefits of weak pollution control and managed to transfer the external cost to others, while others became direct victims. The paper concludes that the rich become richer and the poor become poorer in both economic and environmental perspectives. It is strongly suggested that guanxi should be integrated into the consideration and decision-making process of rural environmental governance in order to guarantee the efficiency and efficacy of its implementation.

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The Sharing of Costs and Benefits of Rural Environmental Pollution Governance in China: A Qualitative Analysis through Guanxi Networks Perspective

Liu

Shi-peng

Zhou

2022

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“…The EJ framework argues that marginalized populations disproportionately bear the burdens of environmental harms, thus linking social and environmental inequalities. Although agriculture and food issues were not a traditional focus for environmental justice research, EJ scholars have more recently moved into studying issues such as access to food, pesticides/herbicides spraying, biotechnologies, the siting of livestock facilities, and the commodification of seed production (Hanson, 2007).…”

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“…Possibly resulting from the environmental justice movement's tendency to focus on single issues, such as local pollution or the siting of a particular hazardous facility, environmental justice work has been criticized for historically providing little vision for alternative, sustainable institutions (Hanson, 2007). However, some recent research studies, like Pellow's (2007) study of transnational environmental justice movements and global waste, have started to explore this gap.…”

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“Our People Are Still Resisting”: Farmworker Community Organizing and the Texas Agricultural System

Edwards

2011

Organization & Environment

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Previous research demonstrates that the contemporary industrial agricultural system in the United States is ecologically and socially destructive. In many ways, it exemplifies the capitalist system of production. A case study of farmworker community organizers in Texas reveals that a key aspect of organizers’ resistance to the industrial agricultural system is a critique of the overall capitalist system. Semistructured, in-depth interviews demonstrate that organizers’ strategies for resistance include integrating human and environmental issues; working outside of the system; increasing inclusivity through incorporating women leaders, families, and community empowerment efforts; and emphasizing collaborative and nonhierarchical systems. This study identifies how, within the context of this resistance, the environmental justice approach can be a useful supplement to the treadmill of production and Marxian political economy approaches.

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Just space or spatial justice? Difference, discourse, and environmental justice

Stanley

2009

Local Environment

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Environmental Justice across the Rural Canadian Prairies: Agricultural Restructuring, Seed Production and the Farm Crisis

Cited by 3 publications

References 5 publications

The Sharing of Costs and Benefits of Rural Environmental Pollution Governance in China: A Qualitative Analysis through Guanxi Networks Perspective

The Sharing of Costs and Benefits of Rural Environmental Pollution Governance in China: A Qualitative Analysis through Guanxi Networks Perspective

“Our People Are Still Resisting”: Farmworker Community Organizing and the Texas Agricultural System

Just space or spatial justice? Difference, discourse, and environmental justice

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