Issues in environmental justice within the European Union

Eloi Laurent

Ecological Economics, 2011, vol. 70, issue 11, 1846-1853

Abstract: This paper surveys pressing issues facing current and future social policies in the European Union (EU) at the juncture of social justice demands and environmental concerns. European policy-makers have in fact only recently acknowledged the notions of environmental justice and environmental inequalities, which have been part of the US policy arsenal for almost two decades. Yet, challenges to equality and fairness in the environmental domain are many and growing within the European Union. After having defined environmental justice and environmental inequalities in the European context, the paper addresses two contemporary dimensions of those challenges for EU social policies: vulnerability and exposure to environmental disaster and risk; and fairness in environmental taxation and the related issue of fuel poverty.

Keywords: Environmental; justice; Environmental; inequalities; European; Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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