Resumen de Environmental Justice: Emergence to Implementation and Its Relation with SDGs
Sekander Zulker Nayeen, Akramul Islam
The concept of Environmental Justice, from its earliest emergence as a social movement in United States (Geoforum Editorial 2006) has always been confronted with its definitional paradox. Admitting that there exists certain shared and common-sense understanding, however, there has been hardly any thorough and comprehensive exploration of environmental justice movements with the goal of examining the conceptions and discourses of justice that they use. The long history of theoretical discussion over the term justice and its implication to environment shows that movements use a wide range of conceptions of justice, and there are arguments in those movements for distribution, recognition, participation, and capabilities (Schlosberg 2007). It has been observed that most of the discussion on environmental justice defines it as the fair distribution of good and risk among the societies with a view to...
