Environmental Justice at the Crossroads
Environmental Justice at the Crossroads
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十字路口的环境正义
DOI：
10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00131.x
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
J. London
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作者：
J. Sze;J. London
环境正义领域出现在社会运动，公共政策和学术研究的十字路口-我们称之为环境正义实践。现在，该领域发现自己再次处于十字路口，因为它扩展到解决新的人口，问题和地方。在这篇文章中，我们首先从社会运动、政策和研究的角度概述了环境不平等和环境种族主义问题的相互竞争的定义。其次，我们确定了该领域在两个关键领域的扩展：新问题和选区以及新的分析地点和地点-特别是地方和全球之间的关系。这种扩展导致越来越复杂的空间方法和社会理论来研究环境不公正的问题。最后，我们确定了该领域的三个有希望的趋势：完善环境不公正的机制和过程，重新关注国家和环境作为关键行为体，以及重新关注学术和社会运动之间的互动和不断发展的关系。
The field of environmental justice emerged at a crossroads of social movements, public policy, and academic research ‐ what we call environmental justice praxis. Now, the field finds itself again at a crossroads as it expands to address new populations, problems, and places. In this article, we first outline the competing definitions of the problems of environmental inequality and environmental racism from the perspective of social movements, policy, and research. Second, we identify the expansion of the field in two key areas: new issues and constituencies and new places and sites of analysis ‐ specifically the relationship between the local and the global. This expansion leads to increasingly sophisticated spatial methodologies and social theories to examine problems of environmental injustice. Finally, we identify three promising trends in the field: refining the mechanisms and processes of environmental injustice, a renewed focus on the state and the environment as key actors, and a revitalized focus on the interactive and continually evolving relationship between scholarship and social movements.