Theorising environmental justice: the expanding sphere of a discourse
@article{Schlosberg2013TheorisingEJ, title={Theorising environmental justice: the expanding sphere of a discourse}, author={David Schlosberg}, journal={Environmental Politics}, year={2013}, volume={22}, pages={37 - 55} }
Environmental justice has been a central concern in a range of disciplines, and both the concept and its coverage have expanded substantially in the past two decades. I examine this development in three key ways. First, I explore how early work on environmental justice pushed beyond many boundaries: it challenged the very notion of ‘environment’, examined the construction of injustice beyond inequity, and illustrated the potential of pluralistic conceptions of social justice. More recently…
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