Unpacking Environmental Justice: Excerpts From India

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Abstract

The Impact of industrialization is unequally superimposed on the already existing disparities in the society. Environmental degradation has unequal negative consequences for the different communities and income-group in the cities. is referred to as environmental injustice. In this article, the concept is stretched to include how the victims tend to be people from the vulnerable sections of the society namely the poor. Economic and fiscal considerations is given more significance over cultural and social considerations. To set right the myopic understandings, we need to not just see the impact on the physical part of the environment but also the cultural part. The legal framework is already in place to prevent this injustice. However, its untimely tampering has rendered it to be powerless. It calls for more sensitivity and careful consideration through the EIA and impartial and community impact should also be included. The article calls for making the process mandatory notwithstanding the fact that it requires to be getting the consent of the primary stakeholders who live in close vicinity of the projects and who would be bearing the consequences whether economic, social and cultural. Any changes in the law should also be done keeping realistic environmental considerations for the vulnerable communities.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Binita Behera
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/12/31
TI  - Unpacking Environmental Justice: Excerpts From India
BT  - Proceedings of the World Anthropology Congress, 2023 (WAC 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 66
EP  - 75
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-192-0_8
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-192-0_8
ID  - Behera2023
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