Just space or spatial justice? Difference, discourse, and environmental justice

Bread and Roses: A Gender Perspective on Environmental Justice and Public Health

“…Of these various aspects, the majority of the environmental justice literature focuses on distributional justice, that is, distributional patterns among social categories [2]. This includes the distribution of environmental goods (e.g., energy, water and green space) as well as environmental burdens (e.g., air pollution, toxic chemicals and flood).…”

Environmental justice in the context of planning

“…Although EJ gained recognition decades ago, planning has not yet fully adopted it as a concept. However, in recent years, the extant dearth in the literature has evolved to introduce, debate and address justice in planning (Spirn, 2005;Salkin, 2006;Arnold, 2007;Stanley, 2009;Byrne & MacCallum, 2013;Madden, 2014;Ling, 2015;Basta, 2016), although in a different or restricted context. Undoubtedly, there is a need to introduce fairness in distribution, recognition of conditions, participation or procedures, and consideration of capabilities and effects.…”

Environmental Reviews and Case Studies: Accounting for Diversity in Environmental Justice Screening Tools: Toward Multiple Indices of Disproportionate Impact

“…This assumption presents problems not only because it presents formidable technical challenges, but also because it fails to address the ways that the substantive and ethical significance of disproportionate impact-along with the variables that should be taken into account in measuring it-varies among, and even within, different types of communities. Difference, diversity, and place specificity in experiences of environmental impact have long been central themes both within the environmental justice movement and in scholarship on environmental justice (e.g., Schlosberg, 1999Schlosberg, , 2007Stanley, 2009;Taylor, 2000;Walker, 2009Walker, , 2012. I contend that it is possible to produce a nationally consistent screening tool that would attend to this diversity and this place specificity in the meaning and experience of disproportionate impact, and one aim of this article is to identify some basic principles for developing such a tool.…”