Third world environmental justice

TY - JOUR

T1 - Third world environmental justice

AU - Schroeder, Richard

AU - St. Martin, Kevin

AU - Wilson, Bradley

AU - Sen, Debarati

N1 - Funding Information: The articles contained in this special issue were presented at a conference devoted to the theme ‘‘Environmental Justice Abroad,’’ which was convened at Rutgers University on October 16, 2004. The authors gratefully acknowledge conference funding received from Mark MacGrann of the MacGrann Fund, the Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences, and the Rutgers University Graduate School.

PY - 2008/8

Y1 - 2008/8

N2 - This special issue relates the key analytical constructs of environmental justice scholarship - distributive justice, procedural justice and environmental racism - to a series of Third World case studies. It calls attention to the need to theorize both distributive burdens and benefits; treat the relative salience of race as a category of differentiation as an empirical question; and examine new avenues of procedural justice that have opened up to transnational environmental justice activists. The basic position advanced in the collection is that the core issues at the heart of environmental justice struggles are universal. In this sense, the case studies presented here should be read not as though they were part of exceptional Third World circumstances, but instead as part of broader patterns of distributive, procedural and racial injustice with global significance.

AB - This special issue relates the key analytical constructs of environmental justice scholarship - distributive justice, procedural justice and environmental racism - to a series of Third World case studies. It calls attention to the need to theorize both distributive burdens and benefits; treat the relative salience of race as a category of differentiation as an empirical question; and examine new avenues of procedural justice that have opened up to transnational environmental justice activists. The basic position advanced in the collection is that the core issues at the heart of environmental justice struggles are universal. In this sense, the case studies presented here should be read not as though they were part of exceptional Third World circumstances, but instead as part of broader patterns of distributive, procedural and racial injustice with global significance.

KW - Distributive justice

KW - Environmental justice

KW - Environmental racism

KW - Globalization

KW - Procedural justice

KW - Third World

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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920802100721

DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920802100721

M3 - Editorial

VL - 21

SP - 547

EP - 555

JO - Society and Natural Resources

JF - Society and Natural Resources

SN - 0894-1920

IS - 7

ER -