Analyzing environmental racism requires structural, procedural, and normative frames jointly

Evidence

Understanding environmental racism thus requires a conceptual framework that (1) retains a structural view of economic and social forces as they influence discriminatory outcomes, (2) isolates the dynamics within environmental decision-making processes that further contribute to such outcomes, and (3) normatively evaluates social forces and environmental decision-making processes which contribute to disparities in environmental hazard distribution. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 334

Categorization

• QUESTION: A clean three-part research design that could be lifted into an analytical scaffold for coursework on environmental justice.
• XREF: connects to: The single-bad-actor search obscures structural causes of environmental racism — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 97; Empirical distributional studies only scratch the surface of environmental racism’s causes — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 292; Environmental racism comprises siting, enforcement, and exclusion of people of color from decisions — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 190 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Environmental racism comprises siting, enforcement, and exclusion of people of color from decisions #expands (0.80) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 190