Toward an Integrative Framework for Environmental Justice Research: A Synthesis and Extension of the Literature

Banerjee, Damayanti

doi:10.1080/08941920.2014.905892

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“…In this orientation, once women are economically empowered, there is high probability that natural resources will be safeguarded. These findings are in the same line of [5] who argued that as countries, especially developing ones, seek to increase revenues from tourism, communities living closer to tourist attractions, specifically those surrounding national parks had to abandon some of the activities that had been long their source of consumption and income. Therefore, environmental distributive justice is a key to sustainable conservation of natural resources.…”

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confidence: 64%

“…The concept of environmental justice deals with the inequities perceived and experienced by diverse stakeholders as they are subjected to activities that affect their lived environments. This is very relevant especially when certain communities are subject to inequities in the distribution and consumption of environmental 'ills' and 'benefits' [5] like in Rwanda, specifically for communities surrounding national parks who are the poorest [6][7][8]. Environmental injustice occurs from human activities that harm the nature and in other forms such as gender and class discrimination [9].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Environmental Justice and Women Empowerment in Nyungwe National Park (Rwanda): Case Study of Kitabi Women Handcrafts Cooperative

Umuziranenge¹

2019

IJECC

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In the framework of the community participation in conservation in Rwanda, a women handcraft cooperative was established in 2011 in the surrounding of Nyungwe National Park in Kitabi sector and Nyamagabe District. It aimed to empower economically and socially wives of former hunters who were themselves relying on natural resources and involved in harvesting different resources in park for making handcraft products. The empowerment was intended to reduce the reliance to natural resources and to contribute to the protection of the park. The objective of the study was to investigate and examine women’s experiences about their empowerment through environmental justice, in terms of distributive and procedural justice and challenges faced by women. In doing so, participants were purposively selected in women handicraft cooperative and in administration bodies. With regards to data collection and analysis, semi-structured interviews and content analysis were used. The findings showed that women are socially and economically empowered. In terms of economic empowerment, access to financial loans, savings, employment and income generating projects are the major indicators of the empowerment. Improved capacity building and family relations are major concerns of social handcraft cooperative members. Regarding the participation of women in decision-making process, the findings are controversial. However, it is still limited because of the dominance of top-down approach that does not consider enough women’s voices and suggestions in decision making. Cooperative women members perceive and consider the process of communication and decision-making as passive because they are almost absent in the monitoring and evaluation processes. The participation of the community members including women only appears through meetings with or without elected representatives. The process of women empowerment is still limited by some challenges such as crop raiding, complicated and slow compensation process, high interest rate and slow process of loan and inadequate communication. The partnership approach is then recommended so as to consider women’s needs and voices in the implementation of natural resources conservation policies.

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confidence: 64%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Justice and Women Empowerment in Nyungwe National Park (Rwanda): Case Study of Kitabi Women Handcrafts Cooperative

Umuziranenge¹

2019

IJECC

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“…All these aspects of urban living environments are prominent in the increased attention to environmental justice (Ernstson 2013;Banerjee 2014). In order to improve environmental justice, it needs to be investigated and pursued in concrete cases and in practical processes of urban development (Hampton 1999), but it also needs to be analyzed in more depth with regard to its theoretical foundations, conceptual frames and representations (Floyd and Johnson 2002); its contents, relations and contexts; and its general methodological aspects (Schlosberg 2013).…”

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Fair blue urbanism: demands, obstacles, opportunities and knowledge needs for just recreation beside Helsinki Metropolitan Area waters

Assmuth

Hellgren

Kopperoinen

et al. 2017

International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development

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To shed light on fair blue urbanism, we studied the demands, obstacles and opportunities as well as knowledge needs of various citizen groups living in Helsinki Metropolitan Area. The perspectives were identified and explored by experts using an innovative 'role chair' method of opinion elicitation. The responses, aggregated as clusters, highlight the multiple roles of urban blue infrastructures and demonstrate that they constitute important parts of cultural processes and environmental justice. Commonalities and differences found between clusters of age and ethnic groups, challenged groups and groups engaged in particular forms of water-related activity suggest paths to inclusive actions for fair use of ecosystem services. Important unrecognized knowledge needs were also discerned. We conclude that environmental justice within engagement with water areas involves wide diversity. Facilitating the recognition of such diversity by experts and then by authorities, stakeholders and citizens concerned through interactive group methods is key to fair blue urbanism.

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“…Recently, considerable research has been undertaken on the multifaceted strategies employed by highly visible, well-organized environmental-justice movements (Carruthers 2008;Banerjee 2014). Simultaneously, relatively scant attention has been paid to cases where no justice movements exist.…”

Section: The Political Ecology and Environmental Justice Of Resettlementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In recent years, several researchers have combined a political-ecological approach of resource governance with an environmentaljustice approach to understand different actors' concerns and claims over resource rights, livelihood security, and environmental vulnerability (Carruthers 2008;Banerjee 2014;Nygren 2014). Together with political ecology, the environmental-justice approach enables the capture of cultural perceptions and social experiences involved in resettlement processes.…”

Section: The Political Ecology and Environmental Justice Of Resettlementmentioning

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Whose Decisions, Whose Livelihoods? Resettlement and Environmental Justice in Ethiopia

Wayessa

Nygren

2015

Society & Natural Resources

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Toward an Integrative Framework for Environmental Justice Research: A Synthesis and Extension of the Literature

Cited by 11 publications

References 15 publications

Environmental Justice and Women Empowerment in Nyungwe National Park (Rwanda): Case Study of Kitabi Women Handcrafts Cooperative

Environmental Justice and Women Empowerment in Nyungwe National Park (Rwanda): Case Study of Kitabi Women Handcrafts Cooperative

Fair blue urbanism: demands, obstacles, opportunities and knowledge needs for just recreation beside Helsinki Metropolitan Area waters

Whose Decisions, Whose Livelihoods? Resettlement and Environmental Justice in Ethiopia

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