Theorising environmental justice: the expanding sphere of a discourse

作者: David Schlosberg

DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2013.755387

关键词: Social scienceEnvironmental ethicsSocial justiceEnvironmental studiesEconomic JusticeSociologySpatial expansionInjusticeClimate justiceRealmEnvironmental justice

摘要: Environmental justice has been a central concern in range of disciplines, and both the concept its coverage have expanded substantially past two decades. I examine this development three key ways. First, explore how early work on environmental pushed beyond many boundaries: it challenged very notion ‘environment’, examined construction injustice inequity, illustrated potential pluralistic conceptions social justice. More recently, there spatial expansion use term, horizontally into broader issues, vertically examinations global nature injustices, conceptually to human relationship with non-human world. Further, argue that recent extensions frame move discourse new realm – where environment are understood create conditions for