Environmental injustice includes both disproportionate risk and exclusion from decisions

Evidence

Shrader-Frechette (2002) continues this dual focus on equity and participation in her important book on the topic. Specifically, she sees environmental injustice when an individual or group suffers ‘disproportionate environmental risks … or has less opportunity to participate in environmental decision-making’ (p. 3). Central to Shrader-Frechette is what she calls the ‘principle of prima facie political equality;’ this ‘includes components of both distributive justice and participative justice’ (p. 24). — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 200

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shrader-Frechette’s operative definition of environmental injustice and her ‘principle of prima facie political equality’ are clean, quotable definitions worth extracting.
• XREF: This bipartite definition is the kind of analytic vocabulary the reader wants to carry into Soundscape (who gets excluded from noise decisions?) and Legal Systems readings. — connects to: Environmental review documents omit or erase the communities they harm — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 1071; Pollution control captures harm at one site only to relocate it onto minority communities — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 623; Procedural inclusion by itself increases acceptance of adverse environmental decisions — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 831 (+7 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Global environmental justice movements target misrecognition, exclusion, and incapacity alongside inequity #expands (0.85) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 298
• Environmental justice comprises recognition and participation as well as distribution #expands (0.85) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 12
• Misrecognition and political exclusion structurally block poor communities’ participation in environmental decisions #exemplifies (0.82) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 248
• Environmental injustice spans burdens, enforcement, and unequal access to environmental goods. #expands (0.80) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 210