Historical Environmental Injustice Excavation: The Intentional—and Illegal—Origins of Environmental Inequality in Hopewell, VA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Bonds
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Inequality ◽  
Environmental Injustice

scholarly journals Do the rules of private nuisance breach the principles of environmental justice?

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-37
Author(s):  
Sam Porter
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Environmental Inequality ◽  
Environmental Injustice ◽  
Disadvantaged Groups ◽  
Significant Potential ◽  
Traditional Remedy ◽  
Relative Standard ◽  
Lock In

This article explores the potential distributive consequences of the tort of private nuisance, through the lens of environmental justice. Firstly, the theoretical underpinnings of this concept are set out. The principal concern of environmental justice is the unfair burdening of disadvantaged groups with societies’ environmental ‘bads’; but the concept can also be manipulated to form a coherent set of principles, enabling the assessment of social institutions. For brevity’s sake, a detailed investigation of the theory of environmental justice or its procedural elements is excluded in favour of a more rigorous practical application of substantive environmental justice. The second and largest part of this article applies this framework for environmental justice to private nuisance. This application serves to demonstrate that the tort has significant potential to perpetuate or even exacerbate environmental inequality. The so-called locality rule – the relative standard used to identify actionable nuisances – appears to ‘lock-in’ environmental injustice, as does the standing rule, which prevents certain classes of claimant – potentially the most disadvantaged – from seeking refuge in this tort. In addition, the increased willingness of judges to issue damages instead of the traditional remedy of an injunction may go further than merely ‘locking in’ environmental injustice by widening environmental inequality.

Environmental inequality and social dominance orientation

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Jackson ◽  
Lisa Bitacola ◽  
Leslie Janes ◽  
Victoria Esses
Keyword(s):  
Social Dominance ◽  
Social Dominance Orientation ◽  
Environmental Inequality

Paws to the Polls: The Making of a Campus Voter Initiative

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
Baby Boomers ◽  
Environmental Injustice ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
Voting Age ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
Voter Initiative

The ravages of social and environmental injustice, pandemics, and racial strife (to name but a few global issues) would lead many of the earth’s inhabitants to agree that change needs to happen. The world will soon pass from the hands of the baby boomers to the millennials and Gen Z, and from the hands of the educators to those we are educating. The protests against the Vietnam War brought us a lowered voting age, from 21 to 18. With help from the slogan “Old enough to fight, old enough to vote,” the 26th Amendment was passed in 1971.

An Environmental Justice Analysis of British Air Quality

2003 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 909-929 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Mitchell ◽  
Danny Dorling
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Car Ownership ◽  
National Study ◽  
Environmental Injustice ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of

This paper presents the results of the first national study of air quality in Britain to consider the implications of its distribution across over ten thousand local communities in terms of potential environmental injustice. We consider the recent history of the environmental justice debate in Britain, Europe, and the USA and, in the light of this, estimate how one aspect of air pollution, nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels, affects different population groups differentially across Britain. We also estimate the extent to which people living in each community in Britain contribute towards this pollution, with the aid of information on the characteristics of the vehicles they own. We find that, although community NO x emission and ambient NO2 concentration are strongly related, the communities that have access to fewest cars tend to suffer from the highest levels of air pollution, whereas those in which car ownership is greatest enjoy the cleanest air. Pollution is most concentrated in areas where young children and their parents are more likely to live and least concentrated in areas to which the elderly tend to migrate. Those communities that are most polluted and which also emit the least pollution tend to be amongst the poorest in Britain. There is therefore evidence of environmental injustice in the distribution and production of poor air quality in Britain. However, the spatial distribution of those who produce and receive most of that pollution have to be considered simultaneously to see this injustice clearly.

scholarly journals Environmental injustice and air pollution in coal affected communities, Hunter Valley, Australia

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Higginbotham ◽  
Sonia Freeman ◽  
Linda Connor ◽  
Glenn Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Environmental Injustice
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