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  2. Environmental justice - Wikipedia

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    Drawing on concepts of anarchism, posthumanism, critical theory, [18] and intersectional feminism, author David Naguib Pellow created the concept of Critical Environmental Justice (CEJ) in his work What is Critical Environmental Justice. [19] Critical EJ is a perspective intended to address a number of limitations and tensions within EJ Studies.

  3. Environmental sociology - Wikipedia

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    Environmental sociology is the study of interactions between societies and their natural environment.The field emphasizes the social factors that influence environmental resource management and cause environmental issues, the processes by which these environmental problems are socially constructed and define as social issues, and societal responses to these problems.

  4. Critical theory - Wikipedia

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    Critical social work is the application to social work of a critical theory perspective. Critical social work seeks to address social injustices, as opposed to focusing on individualized issues. Critical theories explain social problems as arising from various forms of oppression and injustice in globalized capitalist societies and forms of ...

  5. Critical social work - Wikipedia

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    Critical social work is the application to social work of a critical theory perspective. Critical social work seeks to address social injustices, as opposed to focusing on individualized issues. Critical theories explain social problems as arising from various forms of oppression and injustice in globalized capitalist societies and forms of ...

  6. Environmental conflict - Wikipedia

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    Ecological distribution conflicts have given rise to many environmental justice movements around the globe. Environmental justice scholars conclude that these conflicts are a force for sustainability. [18] [13] These scholars study the dynamics that drive these conflicts towards an environmental justice success or a failure.

  7. Environmental movement - Wikipedia

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    The Environmental Justice movement seeks to link "social" and "ecological" environmental concerns, while at the same time preventing de facto racism, and classism. This makes it particularly adequate for the construction of labor-environmental alliances.

  8. Social ecological model - Wikipedia

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    The application of social ecological theories and models focus on several goals: to explain the person-environment interaction, to improve people-environment transactions, to nurture human growth and development in particular environments, and to improve environments so they support expression of individual's system's dispositions.

  9. Environmental, social, and governance - Wikipedia

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    Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) is shorthand for an investing principle that prioritizes environmental issues, social issues, and corporate governance. [1] Investing with ESG considerations is sometimes referred to as responsible investing or, in more proactive cases, impact investing .