1 Don’t Cry, Fight! vs. Deference to the Corporate State: Abrogation of Indigenous Rights and Title, Civil Rights, and Social and Environmental Justice at the Imperialist University

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-135
Author(s):  
Annie Ross
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Corporate State

The Founding of Environmental Justice Organizations Across U.S. Counties during the 1990s and 2000s: Civil Rights and Environmental Cross-Movement Effects

2011 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul B. Stretesky ◽  
Sheila Huss ◽  
Michael J. Lynch ◽  
Sammy Zahran ◽  
Bob Childs
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Environmental Justice

Environmental Justice: Making Policy, One Skirmish at a Time

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Baehler
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Environmental Hazards ◽  
Vulnerable Population ◽  
Environmental Discourse ◽  
The Core ◽  
Established Fact ◽  
Core Idea ◽  
Vulnerable Population Groups

Environmental justice refers to both a concept and a social movement that originally spun off from the American civil rights establishment in the 1980s. The core idea focuses on the now well-established fact that members of vulnerable population groups tend to experience disproportionately higher levels of exposure to environmental hazards, less access to green amenities, and fewer opportunities to have their environmental concerns heard and remedied compared to their wealthier and whiter counterparts. Environmental justice terminology is deeply embedded in contemporary environmental discourse and governance in multiple countries, but its ability to alleviate real instances of environmental mal-distribution has been strongest at the local level thanks to the concept’s power to mobilize diverse networks of activists around local causes.

Environmental Justice, Political Agenda Setting, and the Myths of History

2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin V. Melosi
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Health Hazards ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Environmental Organizations ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
The Earth

The emergence of the environmental justice movement in the 1980s has stimulated much debate on the extent to which race and class have been or should become central concerns of modern environmentalism. Leaders in the environmental justice movement have charged that mainstream environmental organizations and, in turn, environmental policy have demonstrated a greater concern for preserving wilderness and animal habitats than addressing health hazards of humans, especially those living in cities; have embraced a “Save the Earth” perspective at the expense of saving people's lives and protecting their homes and backyards. Some advocates of environmental justice have gone so far as to dissociate their movement from American environmentalism altogether, rather identifying with a broader social justice heritage as imbedded in civil rights activities of the 1950s and 1960s.

Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice

1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy W. Perrett ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Indigenous Rights

Cultivating Environmental Justice

2018 ◽  
pp. 110-143
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Hazardous Waste ◽  
Environmental Leadership ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Waste Dumps ◽  
Lead Paint ◽  
National People

The environmental justice movement grew out of the civil rights movement, and its aim was to provide all people with equal environmental protection. In the 1970s it became clear that African American and Hispanic children had much greater exposure to lead paint than did other children, and that hazardous waste dumps were disproportionately placed in communities of color. In 1991, the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., laid out the 17 principles of environmental justice. One of the Summit leaders was Hazel Johnson, an African American mother from Chicago who formed a nonprofit organization to clean up toxins in her neighborhood, which had the highest concentration of hazardous waste dumps in the nation. Mrs. Johnston's long battle with big industrial polluters is the focus of one of this chapter's case examples of how communities can empower their residents to fight for and achieve environmental justice.

The many entanglements of capitalism, colonialism and Indigenous environmental justice

Soundings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 78 (78) ◽  
pp. 64-80
Author(s):  
Sakshi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Wealth Accumulation ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
The Many ◽  
Justice Movements

Rio Tinto's destruction of Juukan Gorge brought international condemnation. The subsequent interim report commissioned by the Australian Parliament was entitled 'Never Again'. But was this a 'never again' to the logic of settler colonialism? Or to the extractive capitalism that rearranges economic and social life with the sole objective of wealth accumulation? Or to the legislative collaboration between settler colonial states and capitalism? Environmental injustice is sustained internationally through the many entanglements at the intersection of law, coloniality, corporate extractivism and Indigenous sovereignty. These entanglements are explored here in relation to: the idea of a 'trade-off' between Indigenous rights and 'economic benefits' (e.g. the Shenhua coal mine in Australia); the over-riding of local rights through a corporate-driven developmental narrative, which results in the erosion of Indigenous ways of life over a long period, rather than through a singular dramatic event (e.g. oil extraction by Chevron in Ecuador); the difficulties in bringing cases to justice (e.g. the Mount Polley dam collapse in Canada); the need for 'green alternatives' to also respect Indigenous rights; and the potential for greater legal regulation (e.g. the ruling by the Supreme Court of Panama on Indigenous rights; recent legal challenges to the Brazilian government's failure to meet its environmental responsibilities). Social movements and juridical spaces need to adopt a radical shift in their vocabulary and in their world-making practices. Courts play a major role in shaping the way Indigenous environmental justice is understood, and are a vital site of contestation for radical environmental justice movements.

scholarly journals Concept of environmental justice in Nepal: Environmentalism of poor for sustainable livelihood

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-50
Author(s):  
S. Ghimire
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Sustainable Livelihood ◽  
Differential Distribution ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

Environmental justice has emerged as a new concept to address environmental problems of grassroots level from the perspectives of affected and less privileged communities or individuals of a society. This paper relates environmental justice as environmentalism of poor to their livelihood security through the access to resources, decision making power and clean and healthy environment. There are several discriminatory and unjust practices in both urban and rural areas of Nepal. Those vary from disproportionate sharing of ecological benefits and hazards in society to the unequal access to resources, healthy environment, decision-making, information and other civil rights. These injustices are mainly rooted in existing social structure with differential distribution of economic and political power. Some approaches are also discussed to correct environmental injustices, which include essential legal, political and social provisions for improved participation, access to information and access to justice. Himalayan Journal of Sciences 1(1): 47-50, 2003

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