ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: A Historical and Philosophical Approach
The thrusts of the article are threefold: first to examine the complexities presented by environmental inequity in the context of USA and Indian environmental justice movements; and second, to explore the potential that exists within the current system in India to move environmental regulation forwa...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dharmaram College
2014
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Journal of Dharma
Year: 2014, Volume: 39, Issue: 2, Pages: 113-138 |
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Environmental Justice
B National Green Tribunal Act B Community of Environmental Justice B Inter-generational Equity B Sustainable Development B Environmental Racism B Corrective Justice B Precautionary Principles B Public Trust B Polluter Pays Principle B Fairness and Equity |
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| Summary: | The thrusts of the article are threefold: first to examine the complexities presented by environmental inequity in the context of USA and Indian environmental justice movements; and second, to explore the potential that exists within the current system in India to move environmental regulation forward in a responsible manner that makes good on a promise of a more just and fair society and, ultimately, an ecologically sustainable environment in the background of environmental justice principles; and third, in the light of discussion, to suggest a triangular conception of the community of environmental justice, with present generation, future generation and non human natural world at each of the vertices of a triangle in the background of Aristotelian framework of ‘fairness’ and ‘justice’. |
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| ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma
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