Sydney Environment Institute

Discussing inequity and the exclusion from political decision-making.

Presented by the Sydney Social Justice Network in partnership with Sydney Network on Climate Change and Society and the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law.

Environmental Justice has been an issue for environmental and social movements for the past three decades. Starting in the US, and originally focused on the inequity in the distribution of environmental risks to poor communities and communities of colour, the use of the concept has spread across the globe, and been applied to an ever-widening range of issues. Communities have also used environmental justice to discuss not only inequity, but also the lack of recognition for their issues and cultures, the exclusion from political decision-making, and the endangerment of the very functioning of their communities.

Participants:
David Schlosberg; Linda Connor; Scott Franks; Peter Martin; James Whelan; Wayne Smith; Phil McManus; Rosemary Lyster Jessica Harwood; Kim de Rijke; Michelle Maloney; Elizabeth McKinnon; Cam Walker; Rebecca Pearse