EiJ Concept: Equity
A critical exploration of the concept of equity.
A critical exploration of the concept of equity.
Environmental injustice involves cumulative and compounding, unevenly distributed vulnerabilities, hazards, and exposures – produced locally, regionally, nationally and transnationally – with open-
Enviornmental injustice researcher's program pages.
Digital collection of resources for understanding and using critical concepts to characterize and respond to environmental injustice.
Collections of readings that examine and conceptualize environmental injustice.
"So far, however, the idea of setting up a trust fund to allow the Haitian government to eradicate cholera by providing clean water and sanitation has been a deal-killer among international donors."
"'If we do get a final order that the UN's immunity doesn't apply, we would expect the UN to put in clean water and sanitation and compensate the victims,' Concannon says [....] That's the optimistic view."
"That kind of political morass is one big reason - though by no means the only one - why the billions in relief and recovery aid haven't been enough to rescue Haiti from the disasters that fate kept flinging its way."