Environmental Justice in Australia: When the RATS Became IRATE

Arcioni, Elisa; Mitchell, Glenn

doi:10.1080/09644010500087590

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“…And emerging research shows that environmental injustices associated with differential access to salubrious urban environments may be global, with examples from Australia (e.g. Arcioni and Mitchell, 2005;Hillman, 2002;Lloyd-Smith and Bell, 2003), Britain (Mitchell and Dorling, 2003), Asia (Iles, 2004) and Eastern Europe (Varga et al, 2002) illustrating the pernicious impacts and scope of environmental inequality within the world's cities.…”

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Planning for environmental justice in an urban national park

Byrne

Wolch

Zhang

2009

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Urban national parks were designed in the 1970s to bring nature and recreational opportunities to socio-economically disadvantaged communities in the USA. Using the theoretical frame of environmental justice, this paper discusses findings of a recent survey of visitors to Los Angeles' Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area - the United States' largest urban national park. Findings show park visitors were predominantly white, affluent, and lived nearby. People of colour travelled further, were significantly less likely to be return visitors, and were less inclined to use the park for active recreation. Seemingly, this park fails to meet the needs of the disadvantaged urban communities for whom it was created, a problem that may also affect other parks in the United States and potentially parks in other countries. Park planners and managers can take practical steps to increase accessibility to this park for people of colour and low-income earners, and should monitor other parks for patterns of ethno-racially differentiated access and utilisation.urban national parks, race, ethnicity, environmental justice, Los Angeles,

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Planning for environmental justice in an urban national park

Byrne

Wolch

Zhang

2009

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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107

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“…And more often than not, these same populations suffer from poor access to environmental amenities such as parks, beaches, playgrounds, fresh water, wildlands and the like. In Australia, migrant communities, low-income populations and Aboriginal communities are most likely to bear the burden of various environmental harms such as substandard infrastructure, soil contamination, water pollution and inferior quality housing (LloydSmith & Bell, 2003;Arcioni & Mitchell, 2005). And in Europe, Romany (gypsy), other ethnic minorities, migrants, the elderly and low-income populations are more prone to environmental contamination and degradation (Varga et al, 2002;Mitchell & Dorling, 2003).…”

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“…These analyses have recognized the fact that the law sometimes provides unequal protection from environmental pollution to different groups in society, including, for example, racial or ethnic minorities, isolated communities and people of lower socio-economic standing (Higginbotham et al 2010). In Australia, only a limited amount of environmental justice research has been conducted (Strangio 2001, Lloyd-Smith and Bell 2003, Arcioni and Mitchell 2005. However, this lack of research is not an indication that environmental injustices do not exist.…”

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Australians are not equally protected from industrial air pollution

Dobbie

Green

2015

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Australian air pollution standards are set at national and state levels for a number of chemicals harmful to human health. However, these standards do not need to be met when ad hoc pollution licences are issued by state environment agencies. This situation results in a highly unequal distribution of air pollution between towns and cities, and across the country. This paper examines these pollution regulations through two case studies, specifically considering the ability of the regulatory regime to protect human health from lead and sulphur dioxide pollution in the communities located around smelters. It also considers how the proposed National Clean Air Agreement, once enacted, might serve to reduce this pollution equity problem. Through the case studies we show that there are at least three discrete concerns relating to the current licencing system. They are: non-onerous emission thresholds for polluting industry; temporal averaging thresholds masking emission spikes; and ineffective penalties for breaching licence agreements. In conclusion, we propose a set of new, legally-binding national minimum standards for industrial air pollutants must be developed and enforced, which can only be modified by more (not less) stringent state licence arrangements.

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Environmental Justice in Australia: When the RATS Became IRATE

Cited by 21 publications

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Planning for environmental justice in an urban national park

Planning for environmental justice in an urban national park

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Australians are not equally protected from industrial air pollution

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