Environmental Justice

Question 1

When we think of Environmental Justice what should we consider

Answer 1

Distribution
Regulation
Participation

Question 2

Justice is

Ethics is

Answer 2

Practised that emerged on the ground

Philosophy

Question 3

Environmental ethnics are

Answer 3

Concern with Anthropocene
View humans are at centre they only count morally

Leopold non-anthropocentric view it is the community which is expanded across land- land being all

Question 4

Environmental Justice is

Answer 4

Interested in divide between humans and non humans is put into practise

Question 5

John Rawls argues

Answer 5

1) each individual has an adequate scheme of equal basic liberties compatible with the same scheme of liberties for all
2) social and economic inequalities operate to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged members of society

Question 6

Sen argues

Answer 6

Against rawl, if we souly focus on distribution, we don’t acknowledge ppl have different capacities for understanding rights and liberties
Must think on ground

Question 7

Martha NUssbaums

Answer 7

10 capabilities including
-life: able to live a normal life without reduction in its worth

• bodily health including reproduction nourishment and shelter
• bodily integrity ability to move and exercise

Question 8

Theories of justice

Answer 8

Offer rationale for pursuing improved structures of distribution or capabilities for exerting human freedom

Question 9

Environmental justice is not a theory

Answer 9

It names practises that work from the ground up to connect unequal social structures to environmental harms and goods

Question 10

Environmental justice vs social justice

Answer 10

EJ- ground up to connect unequal social structures to environmental harms and good

SJ- works from ground up to argue political terms of equality

Question 11

Environmental Justice Distribution

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Began by focusing on the concrete and inequitable distribution of risks and exposed to hazards

Question 12

Cancer Valley Mississippi River

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Health outcomes has meant levels of pollution are recognised, population predominantly African American
Racial divide

Help if NGO’s gathered data to prove air quality was bad for leading health problems

Question 13

Recognition

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Critiques have sort to connect EJ not only to how social structures distribute Environmental norms by why certain actors are not given recognition

Question 14

Ok Tedi Mine

Answer 14

Cooper and gold mine
1980’s over 2 billion tons of waste dumped into Ok Tedi and fly rivers
Polluted 1000km of water and 2000km of rainforest

Took company to court community built a network for gaining voice for indecency’s people across the world

Question 15

Participation

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Recognition calls for participation
Argued EJ can be achieved on through shifts in social structures so more equal
Power structures must change to allow those with less power to participate

Question 16

Social structures: violence, fast, slow and geopolitical

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Analysis of EJ can help us understand the different speeds scales and spatial dynamics of structural violence

Question 17

Bhopal chemical explosion

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30 years later still water pollution
Poison has effected generations
Dis- scale is far away powers won’t prioritise
Reg- illness classified as ST, physical life altering illnesses not appropriately acknowledged
P- weak government didn’t blame the international organisations

Question 18

Epistemic injustice

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A wrong done to someone specifically in their capacity as the knower

Question 19

Testimonial injustice

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When a listener discredits the speaker

Question 20

Hermeneutical injustice

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A gap in the collective understanding such that a wrong cannot be articulated and puts someone at an h fair disadvantage

Question 21

Theorising from the ground up

Answer 21

Understanding EJ requires a commitment to study the different ways that individuals communities and groups experience and articulate injustices regarding distribution recognition and participation
Social science that is able to engage with scientific + epidemiological dimension of human relationships

Question 22

Schlosberg

Answer 22

2004
Argues looking at justice as distribution is limited and can’t encompass the broad demands for justice made by global EJ

Illustrates limits of insistence on a uniformity in movements

Global EJ movement embodies potential for integrated movement of justice

Question 23

Schlosberg 2

Answer 23

2013
Idea of EJ reflected the lived experience of the reality of injustice on ground

Importance of these have helped push the concept to be embraced

EJ has therefore moved from being a reflection about social injustice to relationship between en and provision of justice itself