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Overview
EJ has always challenged standard definitions
Environment and Justice
Origins
Toxic dumps in low-income communities The intersection of poverty and race as indicators of environmental bads and goods
Defining Environment
Where we live, work, and play Environment is more than wilderness EJ attempted to bring a broader view of environment into practice
Defining (In)Justice
Distribution Race/Recognition and respect Participation Basic needs for functioning communities
Expanding Spaces of EJ
More issues transport, land use, food More places from Latin America to Russia to Australia Globalizing EJ analysis indigenous rights, global toxics trade, climate vulnerability Individual and Community analysis
Katrina, health, gas mining protests
Whanganui River
Conclusions
Theory and practice in/of EJ The salience of environmental justice as a way of understanding experiences of human relationships with the nonhuman the experience of environmental disadvantage. The crucial shift: from environment as a symptom of inequity to environment as the precondition for social justice
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