A shared justice vocabulary can unify environmental and ecological justice movements

Evidence

If both environmental and ecological justice concerns can be addressed using the broad language of distribution, recognition, capabilities, and procedural justice, then a larger frame can be established that could link both sets of concerns. The model here, in a way, is Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962); there, Carson was able to bring together these two previously disconnected environmental concerns—that for the natural world and the animals that inhabit it, and the concern for human health and industrial impacts on individuals and communities. Carson helped to inspire a larger and more diverse environmental movement by illustrating the connections between the issues, and so broadening the discourse beyond one or the other concern. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 41

Categorization

• XREF: Carries the distributive/procedural/recognition typology from earlier chapters as the bridge concept; useful for applying the analytic tool across Eco-Justice readings. — connects to: The same justice framework can bridge human and nonhuman realms — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 13; Movement definitions of justice often extend past distributive accounts — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 10; Justice dimensions are inseparable in global environmental movement discourse — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 333 (+7 more)
• SEED: The four-component frame (distribution, recognition, capabilities, procedural) as a diagnostic checklist for any eco-justice claim — reusable across the polyad.

Broader Connections

• One integrated justice discourse can serve both human and ecological struggles #corroborates (0.92) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 552
• Justice dimensions are inseparable in global environmental movement discourse #expands (0.85) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 333
• Global environmental justice movements target misrecognition, exclusion, and incapacity alongside inequity #expands (0.80) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 298
• Ecological justice theory must pluralize into recognition and capability discourses #expands (0.78) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 420