GOVT3995 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Climate Justice, Multiple Exposure, Equal Protection Clause

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Government and International Relations
• Course: GOVT3995
• Professor: Professor David Schlosberg

Document Summary

What does environmental injustice look like? distributional injustices. Environmental inequity, including australian cases climate inequity. Father of the movement, first book on distributional environmental injustices, first edited volumes that included ej activists. Inequity in siting of environmental bads is at the centre of us environmental justice literature and activism. Landfills, hazardous waste sites, air pollution, lead, contaminated food, dangerous occupations. Bullard s houston examples: landfills and incinerators in black neighborhoods. Same distributive approach applied to environmental amenities. Goods as well as bads parks, new transit, other environmental. Update of initial study from 1987, similar findings. Methodological update: from post codes to host areas" with facilities in centre. Significant difference in racial makeup of host areas vs. non-host areas. And continued lack of equal protection from the government. Very important article as it says, the first quantitative study of the relationship between air pollution and socio-cultural vulnerability.