Issues in environmental justice within the European Union

Eloi Laurent

Post-Print from HAL

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: 2011-09
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (36)

Published in Ecological Economics, 2011, 70 (11), pp.1846 - 1853. ⟨10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.06.025⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Journal Article: Issues in environmental justice within the European Union (2011)
Working Paper: Issues in environmental justice within the European Union (2011)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03414208

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.06.025

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().