Disturbing the Peace: Environmental Change and the Scales of Justice on a Northern River

2007/10/01 by Tina Loo · 53 citations
Social Sciences · Engineering · #Environmental Justice and Health Disparities #Mining and Resource Management #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Environmental justice #Environmental change #Economic Justice #Environmental ethics #Geography #Environmental resource management #Political science #Sociology #Law #Climate change #Environmental science #Ecology

paper · doi:10.1093/envhis/12.4.895

published in Environmental History 12(4), 895-919 (Oxford University Press)

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Abstract

This article examines the environmental and social impacts of damming the Peace River in northern British Columbia as a way of exploring the challenges associated with doing environmental justice. It argues that environmental justice is not simply a matter of rectifying the distribution of environmental harms and benefits. Instead, doing environmental justice requires coming to terms with the different scales at which environmental change is apprehended and comprehended; scales that have sensual, spatial, and temporal dimensions.

Citations

• Environmentalism and Public Policy: Environmental Justice: Grassroots Activism and Its Impact on Public Policy Decision Making

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