Environmental Justice and Environmental Law
24 Fordham Environmental Law Review 149 (2013)
32 Pages Posted: 16 Jul 2013 Last revised: 23 Oct 2013
Date Written: 2013
Abstract
This essay, prepared for the Fordham Environmental Law Review’s 20th Anniversary edition marking key developments in environmental law, addresses the past and future of environmental justice. From a historical perspective, it analyzes the central features of the environmental justice movement, its strengths and weaknesses in influencing environmental law, and the systemic reasons why environmental justice has struggled for influence in environmental policy. Looking forward, the essay focuses on how the environmental justice movement can contribute to the future of environmental law. Amplifying the voices of many environmental justice scholars, it argues that the environmental justice movement and its sister movement, environmental sustainability, offer visionary, comprehensive, and inclusive paths forward that could increase the environmental movement’s breadth and political strength.
Keywords: environmental justice, environmental movement, environmental law
JEL Classification: K32
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