Understanding environmental justice: making the connection between sustainable development and social justice

Adebowale, Maria

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“…Finally, the formulation and evolution of work in the Grand Calumet AOC was selected because of its timeliness and relevance to the development of the US-based Environmental Justice movement. The importance of contextual factors to the coupling of EJ and ecosystem-governance may not fully account for differences between US-based and global concepts of EJ which, while closely related, are not identical (Adebowale, 2008;Agyeman, 2014). For example, EJ discussions in the US and elsewhere place different levels of emphasis on distribution (Agyeman, 2014).…”

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Coupling ecosystem-centered governance modes with environmental justice

Cutts¹,

Greenlee²,

Chantrill³

2022

Front. Sustain. Cities

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In North America, Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOCs) were established to remediate aquatic pollution in 1987 as part of a binational agreement between the United State of America and Canada. Although the action preceded formal environmental injustice acknowledgment, the AOC program's effort to remediate legacy pollutants includes language with the potential to accomplish core goals of EJ: democratizing decision-making and reducing disproportionate environmental burden. Yet, in AOCs, discussions of public engagement regarding AOC work tend to define participation institutionally (i.e., the state, market, and civil society) rather than by racial or socioeconomic inclusivity. Understanding how AOC governance processes consider representation of, and benefit to communities negotiating remediation decisions from positions of systemic disadvantage requires addressing the relationship between ecosystem-centered governance modes and environmental justice. In this study, interviews with governance actors reveal that concern for EJ issues wield different forms of authority as ecosystem-centered governance and environmental justice couple, decouple, and uncouple. Changes in coupling correspond with shifts in ecosystem-centric governance mode, but coupling does not rely on any one particular governance arrangement. Instead, coupling relies on leadership practices and conceptions of fairness that are EJ-responsive and present EJ as indistinct from ecosystem goals and targets. Our findings reinforce the assertion that ecosystem-centered governance can be reimagined to better facilitate EJ even without changes in financial and regulatory constraints. We conclude by proposing empirical measures that advance EGM-EJ qualitative scholarship and practical advice about how to cultivate EJ-responsive leadership in ecosystem-centered governance arrangements.

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Coupling ecosystem-centered governance modes with environmental justice

Cutts¹,

Greenlee²,

Chantrill³

2022

Front. Sustain. Cities

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“…Environmental justice scholarship has expanded to include analysis of international communities, studying the relationship between demographic factors and environmental hazards in the specific context of the country in question (Adebowale, 2008;Agyeman, 2014;Brainard et al, 2002). Environmental justice is reconceptualized for different populations within the U.S. as well, including Indigenous and Latinx communities (de la Hoz, 2016;Lynch, 1993;Vickery & Hunter, 2016).…”

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Environmental justice policy in the United States: community definition and benefits allocation in underserved and overburdened communities

Sotolongo

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The Biden Administration's Justice40 initiative promises to allocate at least 40 percent of the benefits from federal investments in climate and clean energy to disadvantaged communities.In order to deliver on this promise, both the concept of "benefits" and "disadvantaged communities" need to be defined-otherwise, the promised distribution of benefits cannot be evaluated. While the Justice40 initiative is moving forward at the federal level, it is likely that over the next decade, U.S. states will follow the federal government's leadership in allocating benefits to disadvantaged communities. At the same time, U.S. states are experimenting with different approaches to environmental justice community definition and policy interventions.Environmental justice policy research, which has traditionally focused on analyzing how state characteristics are correlated with the existence of an environmental justice policy, is based on a conceptualization of justice that splits policies into procedural or substantive categories. There is little research that focuses on environmental justice policy at the U.S. state level and incorporates more complex theories of justice from a wide range of environmental justice theorists.

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Understanding environmental justice: making the connection between sustainable development and social justice

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Coupling ecosystem-centered governance modes with environmental justice

Coupling ecosystem-centered governance modes with environmental justice

Environmental justice policy in the United States: community definition and benefits allocation in underserved and overburdened communities

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