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Environmental justice is a social movement that addresses injustice that occurs when poor or marginalized communities are harmed by hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses from which they do not benefit.
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.
Social work is a broad profession that intersects with several disciplines. Social work organizations offer the following definitions: Social work is a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people.
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. [97]
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 .
Climate justice is a type of environmental justice [1] that focuses on the unequal impacts of climate change on marginalized or otherwise vulnerable populations. [2] Climate justice seeks to achieve an equitable distribution of both the burdens of climate change and the efforts to mitigate climate change . [ 3 ]
It has also been adopted into a non-academic setting through the environmental justice movement, where it branches academia and activism to assist social movements in legal struggles. In his 1874 lecture ‘ Wage Labour and Capital ’, Karl Marx introduced the idea that economic relations under capitalism are inherently exploitative, meaning ...
Local outcomes of these conflicts are increasingly influenced by trans-national environmental justice networks. [57] [58] Environmental justice scholars have produced a large interdisciplinary body of social science literature that includes contributions to political ecology, environmental law, and theories on justice and sustainability. [54 ...