Environmental justice

Template:Release Conceptualising Environmental Justice

• Distributive justice is concerned with how environmental ‘goods’ (e.g. access to green space) and environmental ‘bads’ (e.g. pollution and risk) are distributed amongst different groups and the fairness or equity of this distribution.
• Procedural justice is concerned with the fairness or equity of access to environmental decision-making processes and to rights and recourse in environmental law.
• Policy justice is concerned with the principles and outcomes of environmental policy decisions and how these have impacts on different social groups.
• Intranational justice is concerned with how these distributions and processes are experienced and operate within a country.
• International justice extends the breadth of concerns to include international and global issues such as climate change.
• Intergenerational justice encompasses issues of fairness and responsibility between generations, such as emerge in debates over the protection of biodiversity.

See also

Aarhus Convention aims at access to information, public participation in decision-making, and access to justice in environmental matters. Aarhus Convention