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Society & Natural Resources
An International Journal
Volume 21, 2008 - Issue 7
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Third World Environmental Justice

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Pages 547-555 | Received 10 Aug 2005, Accepted 22 Jan 2008, Published online: 25 Jul 2008
 

Abstract

This special issue relates the key analytical constructs of environmental justice scholarship – distributive justice, procedural justice and environmental racism – to a series of Third World case studies. It calls attention to the need to theorize both distributive burdens and benefits; treat the relative salience of race as a category of differentiation as an empirical question; and examine new avenues of procedural justice that have opened up to transnational environmental justice activists. The basic position advanced in the collection is that the core issues at the heart of environmental justice struggles are universal. In this sense, the case studies presented here should be read not as though they were part of exceptional Third World circumstances, but instead as part of broader patterns of distributive, procedural and racial injustice with global significance.

The articles contained in this special issue were presented at a conference devoted to the theme “Environmental Justice Abroad,” which was convened at Rutgers University on October 16, 2004. The authors gratefully acknowledge conference funding received from Mark MacGrann of the MacGrann Fund, the Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences, and the Rutgers University Graduate School.

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