Global environmental justice movements define justice as distribution plus recognition, participation, and capabilities.

Evidence

As with environmental justice groups in the USA, the most obvious and oft-cited evidence of environmental injustice in the global realm is distributive—specifically the inequitable share of environmental ills with which poor communities, indigenous communities, communities of color, and communities with economies outside the neoliberal model must live. Here, the call for environmental justice focuses on how the distribution of environmental risks mirrors the inequity in socioeconomic and cultural status. But while distributional inequity is crucial to the definition of environmental justice, it is a necessary yet insufficient factor in that definition at the global scale. Again, a critique of the distribution of environmental goods and bads is central to groups that invoke environmental justice, but they offer a much more broad definition of justice which includes conceptions of, and demands for, recognition, participation, and capabilities for both individuals and communities. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 276

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the central claim that EJ discourse spans distribution, recognition, participation, and capability (ch5, ch70) outward from the US movement to global and Global South movements. — connects to: Environmental justice comprises recognition and participation as well as distribution — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 12; Justice comprises interlinked distribution, recognition, participation, and capability — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 53; Distribution remains the most cited dimension of environmental justice despite broader definitions — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 207 (+9 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Justice dimensions are inseparable in global environmental movement discourse #corroborates (0.95) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 333
• Global environmental justice movements target misrecognition, exclusion, and incapacity alongside inequity #expands (0.92) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 298