The Evolving Structure of the Environmental Justice Movement in the United States: New Models for Democratic Decision-Making

摘要: Over the last two decades in United States, mainstream environmental organizations have reduced, rather than increased, democratic participation by citizens problem-solving. The justice movement, on other hand, has served to enlarge constituency of movement incorporating poorer communities and oppressed people color into decision making process; build community capacity developing campaigns projects that address common links between various social problems; facilitate empowerment emphasizing grassroots organizing over advocacy. This paper outlines different components movement. It is our contention if researchers policymakers continue conceive ecological crisis as a collection unrelated problems, then it possible some combination regulations, incentives, technical innovations can keep pollution resource destruction at “tolerable” levels for more affluent socioeconomic populations. However, poor working class which lack political–economic resources defend themselves will suffer worst abuses. interdependency issues emphasized advocated transformative politics be invented.