The ideology of environmental justice: a Ukrainian case study

• Krasnova, Yuliia ^[2] ; Trehub, Oleksandr ^[2] ; Ladychenko, Viktor ^[1] ; Yankovskyi, Stanislav ^[1] ; Bevz, Olena ^[3]
  1. [1] National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

     National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

     Ucrania

     
  2. [2] National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine», Ukraine.
  3. [3] Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine.

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• Localización: Revista Amazonia Investiga, ISSN-e 2322-6307, Vol. 13, Nº. 82, 2024, págs. 197-207
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The relevance of the study is related to the need for a theoretical and legal characterization of environmental justice as a legal phenomenon, as well as the development of a legal mechanism for its establishment in order to implement the principle of sustainable development. The dialectical method, methods of analysis, concretization, idealization, comparison, historical and other methods were used to achieve the purpose of the study. The paper reveals the essence of environmental justice as an advanced concept of society development. The ideology of environmental justice is based on equal access of people to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, which is equated to the right to an environment that is safe for life and health in Ukrainian legislation. The paper pays special attention to the study of the phenomenon of sacrifice zones, approaches to their understanding and characteristics. In the context of long-term hostilities in Ukraine, the combination of traditional (consequences of economic activity) and new (consequences of hostilities) environmental hazards, complex types of sacrifice zones (military impact zones) appear. The features of military impact zone are proposed to include the following: it involves other types of sacrifice zones; it "absorbs" nature reserves and other protected areas; ongoing hostilities, the presence of mines and other explosive objects hinder the implementation of environmental policy goals. Social payments (both temporary and permanent) can be a means of partial implementation of the principle of environmental justice for the population living in sacrifice zones.