Incentives and barriers to environmental inequality mobilization: A case-study analysis in Wallonia, Belgium

Lejeune, Zoé; Teller, Jacques

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2016.07.016

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“…On all these fields, movement organizers face an uphill battle against the obfuscating nature of air pollution itself (Coppens et al., 2018; Lejeune and Teller, 2016; Wakefield et al., 2006). To politicize air pollution and mobilize a population requires considerable discursive work (Kenis, 2021; Pezzullo, 2001) to produce, frame, formulate and disseminate knowledge about air pollution and its uneven geographies.…”

Section: Beyond a Just Distribution Of Airmentioning

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Rethinking environmental justice: capability building, public knowledge and the struggle against traffic-related air pollution

Loopmans

Smits

Kenis

2021

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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For more than a decade, a broad social movement has organised significant opposition to the expansion of the Antwerp ring road. By linking the very mobile, intangible and unplaceable problem of traffic-related air pollution to the highly local, concrete, immobile issue of the highway, they succeeded in creating the largest mobilization against air pollution ever in Belgium. A distributive justice discourse which portrayed Antwerp residents as being unfairly affected has played a crucial role in this endeavour. At the same time, the movement has struggled to involve and represent those who will be most affected by the ring road extension. Low income and ethnic minority residents living close to the ring road are strikingly absent from the movements’ ranks and tend to be silenced in its discourse. In this paper, we scrutinise this disparity between the social composition of the most affected areas and the social composition of the movement dealing with the issue, and reflect on the movement’s practices of knowledge production and dissemination from an environmental justice perspective. We highlight the need for expanding environmental justice beyond a merely distributive approach and argue that environmental justice movements need to see knowledge dissemination and public pedagogy as more than just a mobilizing strategy. Without pursuing equity in the distribution of networks, capabilities and knowledge, enhancing the possibilities of those who are most affected to develop their own strategies, environmental justice is difficult to realize.

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Section: Beyond a Just Distribution Of Airmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking environmental justice: capability building, public knowledge and the struggle against traffic-related air pollution

Loopmans

Smits

Kenis

2021

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Urban Resilience in Post-industrial Urban Landscapes: Necessity or Destiny?

Teller,

Saarinen

2024

Applied Innovation and Technology Management

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Environmental Inequalities in Flood Exposure: A Matter of Scale

Poussard¹,

Dewals

Archambeau

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Front. Water

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Studies on inequalities in exposure to flood risk have explored whether population of a lower socio-economic status are more exposed to flood hazard. While evidence exist for coastal flooding, little is known on inequalities for riverine floods. This paper addresses two issues: (1) is the weakest population, in socio-economic terms, more exposed to flood hazard, considering different levels of exposure to hazard? (2) Is the exposure to flood risk homogeneous across the territory, considering different scales of analysis? An analysis of the exposure of inhabitants of Liège province to flood risk was conducted at different scales (province, districts, and municipalities), considering three levels of exposure to flood hazard (level 1- low hazard, level 3- high hazard), and five socio-economic classes (class 1-poorest, class 5-wealthiest households). Our analysis confirms that weaker populations (classes 2 and 3) are usually more exposed to flood hazards than the wealthiest (classes 4 and 5). Still it should be stressed that the most precarious households (class 1) are less exposed than low to medium-range ones (classes 2 and 3). Further on the relation between socio-economic status and exposure to flood hazard varies along the spatial scale considered. At the district level, it appears that classes 4 and 5 are most exposed to flood risk in some peripheral areas. In municipalities located around the center of the city, differences of exposure to risk are not significant.

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Incentives and barriers to environmental inequality mobilization: A case-study analysis in Wallonia, Belgium

Cited by 3 publications

References 48 publications

Rethinking environmental justice: capability building, public knowledge and the struggle against traffic-related air pollution

Rethinking environmental justice: capability building, public knowledge and the struggle against traffic-related air pollution

Urban Resilience in Post-industrial Urban Landscapes: Necessity or Destiny?

Environmental Inequalities in Flood Exposure: A Matter of Scale

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