Environmental injustice spans burdens, enforcement, and unequal access to environmental goods.

Evidence

Critics also continue to note the inequity in the application of environmental laws and standards in poor and minority communities, including lower rates of environmental cleanup and enforcement. Finally, many authors discuss inequities in the exposure to environmental goods (such as parks, playgrounds, green space, clean water and air, and healthy foods). The bottom line here is that the ‘unifying insight of environmental justice recognizes that neither the costs of pollution nor the benefits of environmental protection are evenly distributed throughout our society’ (Edwards 1995: 36). — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 210

Categorization

• DEFINE: Expands the definition of environmental inequity beyond waste siting to enforcement gaps and unequal access to goods like parks and clean food.
• XREF: connects to: Environmental injustice includes both disproportionate risk and exclusion from decisions — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 200; Environmental justice comprises recognition and participation as well as distribution — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 12; Distributive environmental justice requires equal treatment across race, class, and education. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 211 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Environmental justice comprises recognition and participation as well as distribution #expands (0.85) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 12
• Environmental visibility and remediation access are distributed unequally by race, class, and globalization #exemplifies (0.85) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 175
• Distributive environmental justice requires equal treatment across race, class, and education. #qualifies (0.80) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 211
• Environmental racism comprises siting, enforcement, and exclusion of people of color from decisions #exemplifies (0.80) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 190
• Global justice critique extends maldistribution to natural resources and environmental harms. #exemplifies (0.78) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 285
• Global environmental justice movements define justice as distribution plus recognition, participation, and capabilities. #expands (0.75) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 276
• Global environmental justice movements target misrecognition, exclusion, and incapacity alongside inequity #expands (0.75) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 298
• Environmental justice emerged from fusing civil rights racial critique with anti-toxics economic analysis #expands (0.72) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 141
• Justice dimensions are inseparable in global environmental movement discourse #corroborates (0.72) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 333