Environmental degradation of a place is experienced as an attack on community identity

Evidence

As the places are disturbed and disrupted by environmental impacts, so are the identities of the individuals and communities that make up that place. ‘To the extent that we construct our identities in place, whenever the biophysical conditions of a place are threatened, undermined, or radically transformed, we also see these changes as attacks on our identity and personal integrity’ (Peña 1999: 6). These communities often feel like endangered species, and environmental justice battles are battles for the preservation of the ‘homeland environment’ and the local knowledges and senses of place that exist in those communities (Peña 1998). — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 232

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces place-based identity as a recognition-injustice concept usable across the polyad.
• XREF: Connects to place attachment and settler-colonial land critique in Eco-Justice Education readings. — connects to: Environmental education can alienate resource-dependent rural communities when it condemns local livelihoods. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education: Connecting…, 68; Drained marshland carries its whole lost community to extinction unnoted — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 573; Environmental review documents omit or erase the communities they harm — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 1071 (+7 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Environmental degradation of sacred land constitutes a recognition injustice #exemplifies (0.92) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 236
• Space homogenization clashes with place-based identity, fueling political antagonism #corroborates (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1628
• Avoiding mislabeled dangerous areas strips urbanites of freedom and belonging #exemplifies (0.75) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1153