Environmental Justice, Unknowability and Unqualified Affectability

Ethics and the Environment 18 (2):55-79 (2013)
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Abstract

Environmental justice seeks fairness in how environmental burdens and risks are visited on poor people, women, communities of color, Indigenous peoples, minorities, and citizens of developing countries. It also concerns whether members of these same groups have fair access to environmental goods such as urban green spaces, forested areas, and clean water. Environmental goods extend, also, to opportunities to benefit from enterprises such as tourism and green infrastructure (Shrader-Frechette 2002; Bullard 2000; Taylor 2000; Whyte 2010). The moral wrongs characteristic of environmental injustices often do not resonate with members of dominant societies. In some cases, those injustices are unknowable. To say that ..

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Kristie Dotson
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor