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Indigenous community-based approaches to environmental justice through citizen science. [PDF]

open access: yesSustain Nexus Forum
Agramont A   +6 more
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The geography of environmental injustice

Habitat International, 2017
Abstract Policy and planning have since the last couple of years significantly relied on digital data repositories for decision support. Spatially-enabled data, has become on the vanguard of more complete and coherent decisions at a finer regional gradient.
Eric Vaz
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Environmental injustice: Fracking

Public Health Nursing, 2021
AbstractIndividuals have rights not only to health care but also to a safe environment including clean water sources and ambient air. These rights should be protected regardless of demographic variables. Unfortunately, there are injustices that infringe upon these human rights including the hydraulic fracturing of shale rock or “fracking.” Fracking is ...
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Environmental Injustice

This chapter examines bilge dumping as a critical environmental injustice affecting Indonesia's coastal communities and its effect towards climate justice and sustainable development. As an under-reported form of marine pollution, bilge dumping significantly disrupts marine ecosystems, leading to biodiversity loss, habitat degradation, and adverse ...
Jayajit Chakraborty, Simran Koul
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Environmental Injustice in Africa

Contemporary Pragmatism, 2012
This paper explores the nature and impact of local and global environmental injustice in Africa. It shows that some people have been and still become toxic victims, carrying the brunt of inequitable environmental costs because of the transfer of risks and environmental hazards to some African countries through the export of toxic waste and hazardous ...
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Environmental Injustice in France

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2008
Abstract This paper presents the first national study on environmental inequalities in France. It applies the Anglo-American concept of environmental justice, focusing on the distribution of environmental burdens, to the French setting and tests the hypothesis that poor and immigrant communities are disproportionately exposed to environmental risks ...
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The Benefits of Development and Environmental Injustice

2019
Professor of Law, Earle Mack School of Law, Drexel University. The author wishes to thank Roger Dennis, John Echeverria, Eileen Gauna, Robert Kuehn, and Bradford Mank, as well as participants in the Vermont Law School Environmental Colloquium and the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia Conference on Environmental Justice for their helpful ...
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Why Not Environmental Injustice?

Ethics, Place & Environment, 2010
Turner and Feldman address an important environmental justice (EJ) issue: ‘Under conditions of social and economic inequality, only some people…will have the clout and the funding to get the powers...
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