Environmental justice
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Environmental justice emerged as a concept in the United States in the early 1980s. The term has two distinct uses: the first, and more common usage, describes a social movement that focuses on the fair distribution of environmental benefits and burdens, while the other is an interdisciplinary body of social science literature that includes theories of the environment and justice, environmental laws and their implementations, environmental policy and planning and governance for development and sustainability, and political ecology.
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See also
- Climate justice
- Environmental contract
- Environmental criminology
- Environmental history
- Environmental Justice Foundation
- Environmental law
- Environmental policy of the United States
- Environmental racism
- Environmental racism in Europe
- Environmental sociology
- Equality impact assessment
- Health equity
- Intergenerational equity
- List of environmental lawsuits
- Resource justice
- Sustainable development
- Alton, Rhode Island - a town struggling with a large, polluting dye company
- Hunters Point, San Francisco, California - a neighborhood next to a Superfund site
- Rural Action - an organization promoting social and environmental justice in Appalachian Ohio
- Toxic 100
- Environmental justice and coal mining in Appalachia
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