Barriers and opportunities to incorporating environmental justice in the National Environmental Policy act

Ulibarri, Nicola; Figueroa, Omar Pérez; Grant, Anastasia

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2022.106880

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“…Sampson (2019) found that an EJ curriculum in an elementary school promoted students' understanding of their local environment and encouraged them to take action to improve it. Low-income and minority students may face additional barriers to accessing EJ education due to factors like lack of resources and opportunities for engagement in environmental advocacy (Ulibarri et al, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

Environmental Justice Education in Nepal: Policies and Practices

Sharma,

Paudel,

Singh

et al. 2024

Prithvi Acad. J.

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Environmental justice is fundamental to education and policy, ensuring clean environments and sustainable development. The curriculum and constitution of Nepal focus on this, addressing global gaps and encouraging comprehensive wellbeing measures for educational resilience. This paper analyzes how environmental justice is reflected through equitable treatment and meaningful participation of all people in the creation, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regardless of their race, culture, education, and socioeconomic status. To analyze how environmental justice has been enforced in educational policies, interviews were conducted with five policymakers who have long experience in policymaking in the educational sector. The findings revealed that indigenous knowledge, cultural thought, and belief in environmental justice areas were considered major issues in education policies and practices. This study emphasizes the interconnectedness of local and global environmental issues and the need to bridge the gap. The integration of environmental justice in the national curriculum framework highlights the role of local expertise, indigenous knowledge, and practical application. The study recognizes the significance of environmental consciousness, sustainable development, and equal access to education. This study acknowledges constitutional provisions in Nepal supporting environmentally friendly and sustainable development. It emphasizes the importance of environmental education, equitable treatment, and compensation for environmental injustices to safeguard the environment for future generations.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Justice Education in Nepal: Policies and Practices

Sharma,

Paudel,

Singh

et al. 2024

Prithvi Acad. J.

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“…Calls for evaluating the performance of US EIA 17 and administrative procedures 18 are increasingly strong for good reason: How the government sources and weighs information to comply with statutory processes involve signi cant equity 19,20 , e ciency 21 , and adaptability 22 Curtailing robust, deliberative decision-making for short-term political bene t risks erosion of public trust while failing to expedite the implementation of necessary actions. [1] The numerator is the median probability estimated by the survival curves.…”

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Curtailing environmental impact assessment unlikely to speed implementation of natural resource management

Struthers¹,

Murenbeeld

Williamson

2023

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Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a central procedure that governments use to evaluate the merits and risks of natural resource management decisions and is often labeled red tape. Increasingly, decisionmakers from across the political spectrum are exempting EIA in order to expedite implementation of necessary actions for climate resilience and clean energy. Yet few studies have quantified the extent that EIA is the main barrier to efficient implementation of government priorities. We gather administrative data from the US Forest Service (USFS) on more than 4,500 silviculture, fuels, and invasive species management actions initiated 2009–2021 and use survival analysis to compare the time it takes agency offices to comply with the 1970 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) relative to other implementation tasks. Results indicate that for most actions the USFS takes as long or longer to award first contracts and rollout first on-the-ground activities than to complete NEPA processes, and that the NEPA process accounts for one-fifth of planned implementation time. Results call attention toward efficiency barriers that slow implementation after EIA and away from exemption strategies that deliver short-term political benefits at the expense of public trust and sound decision-making under a shifting climate.

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“…Meanwhile, as NEPA is "procedural rather than substantive legislation" (Ulibarri et al, 2022: 2) and "does not enforce or prohibit any specific actions" (Stern et al, 2014(Stern et al, : 1095, each agency enacts its own set of regulations that outline agency-specific procedures for implementing NEPA. For USACE, these are codified as 33 CFR Appendix B to Part 325 (hereafter Appendix B).…”

Section: Environmental Harmsmentioning

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Scope-shifting: Bureaucracy, Energy Justice and the Dakota Access Pipeline

Bondi,

Horowitz

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Through a study of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) environmental assessment (EA) of the Dakota Access Pipeline's crossing of Lake Oahe near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, this paper explores regulatory agencies’ “interpretive implementation.” We find that, in implementing the National Environmental Policy Act and Executive Order 12898 on Environmental Justice, USACE “scope-shifted”—facultatively expanding and contracting the scopes of its spatial, scientific and cost–benefit impact analyses—to expedite industrial expansion, contravening the policies’ original intents. In doing so, USACE's EA created various energy injustices by excluding local tribes (especially the Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes) and their concerns, e.g. treaty rights, local histories, climate change and especially potential oil spills with impacts on human health and subsistence resources. We analyze this scope-shifting through the lens of Karl Polayni's double movement between socioenvironmental protections and capitalist development. We elaborate this framework further via a triple-helix model that analyses ideologies, power relations and policies (here further complicated by both “law” and “interpretation” threads), as three intertwined strands that pull with or against each other, jointly progressing toward greater rights for vulnerable communities, “retrograding” toward earlier, oppressive conditions or simply stagnating. Ultimately, we argue that understanding scope-shifting and other forms of interpretive implementation as threads within the triple-helix policy strand, in dynamic tension or synchrony with other threads and strands, can help explicate agency decision-making processes. We hope that this conceptualization can elucidate the capacity of seemingly mundane bureaucratic practices for exacerbating, or potentially alleviating, energy injustice.

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Barriers and opportunities to incorporating environmental justice in the National Environmental Policy act

Cited by 18 publications

References 46 publications

Environmental Justice Education in Nepal: Policies and Practices

Environmental Justice Education in Nepal: Policies and Practices

Curtailing environmental impact assessment unlikely to speed implementation of natural resource management

Scope-shifting: Bureaucracy, Energy Justice and the Dakota Access Pipeline

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