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Submitted by:  Maria Julia Rossi, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literature, John Jay College

“You don’t need to be an environmental specialist to be concerned about environmental issues: the climate crisis is affecting the world we all live in. This text, “Justicia ambiental,” is an overview of recent trends in the environmental movement. Alicia Arriaga Legarda and Mercedes Pardo Buendía describe how environmental concerns turned from an interest on conservation of the physical environment to expand towards a social justice perspective. This text, published in a sociological journal, articulates historical facts and theoretical approaches to the environmental movement. The authors offer a good introduction for a non-expert reader to understand climate change concerns in relation to issues of inequality, vulnerability, and marginality.”

“Nohace falta ser especialista en cuestiones medioambientales para preocuparse por el medio ambiente: la crisis climática afecta el mundo en el que todos vivimos. Este texto, “Justicia ambiental”, es un panorama de tendencias recientes en el movimiento ambiental. Alicia Arriaga Legarda y Mercedes Pardo Buendía describen cómo las preocupaciones ambientales pasaron del interés en la conservación del medio ambiente físico hacia una perspectiva de justicia social. Este texto, publicado en una revista sociológica, articula hechos históricos y aproximaciones teóricas dentro del movimiento medioambiental. Las autoras ofrecen una buena introducción para el lector inexperto en estos temas para comprender preocupaciones sobre el cambio climático en relación con cuestiones de desigualdad, vulnerabilidad y marginalidad.”  (Comment by Rossi, 2019)

Click here to read online: “Justicia Ambiental. El estado de la cuestion: Environmental Justice: The State of the Art”

In Revista Internacional de Sociología (RIS) Vol.69, nº 3, Septiembre-Diciembre, 627-648 by Alicia Arriaga and Mercedes Pardo Buendía Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.  Issues of social justice and equity related to the environment have taken place in the environmental justice movement. Previously, the environmental movement had focused, almost exclusively, on issues related to the conservation of the physical environment as well as the reduction of pollutants from the atmosphere, land and water. the environmental justice paradigm, however, has sought, since its origins in the united states three decades ago, to incorporate issues of social justice in the environmental movement, with performances of great national success.

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