Transcription of Environmental Justice - UFRGS
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222 United Nations Environment ProgrammeUFRGSMUN | UFRGS Model United Nations Journal ISSN: 2318-3195 | v1, 2013| JusticeMarina de Oliveira FingerFelipe Bortoncello Zorzi1. Historical backgroundTh e Environmental Justice movement has been inspired by diff erent sources around the world. Europeans have used Marxian thinking on class hierarchy, non-Western nations sought its inspiration in the critiques of colonialism and the Civil Rights Movement was its precursor in the United States of America (Keller 2011). Th e concept of Environmental Justice , though, has its origins in the struggles of color communities and lower income-communities against uneven Environmental burdens in the United States of America in the late 70 s and early 80 s.
Environmental justice is the recognition of disparities among people in costs and benefi ts distribution, meaning that the concept is in fact a call for equality. Its
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