Environmental justice and conceptions of the green economy

Ehresman, T.G. and Okereke, C. (2015) Environmental justice and conceptions of the green economy. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 15 (1). pp. 13-27. ISSN 1573-1553 doi: 10.1007/s10784-014-9265-2

Abstract/Summary

Green economy has become one of the most fashionable terms in global environmental public policy discussions and forums. Despite this popularity, and its being selected as one of the organizing themes of the United Nations Rio+20 Conference in Brazil, June 2012, its prospects as an effective mobilization tool for global environmental sustainability scholarship and practice remains unclear. A major reason for this is that much like its precursor concepts such as environmental sustainability and sustainable development, green economy is a woolly concept which lends itself to many interpretations. Hence, rather than resolve long-standing controversies, green economy merely reinvigorates existing debates over the visions, actors and policies best suited to secure a more sustainable future for all. In this review article, we aim to fill an important gap in scholarship by suggesting various ways in which green economy may be organized and synthesized as a concept, and especially in terms of its relationship with the idea of social and environmental justice. Accordingly, we offer a systemization of possible interpretations of green economy mapped onto a synthesis of existing typologies of environmental justice. This classification provides the context for future analysis of which, and how, various notions of green economy link with various conceptions of justice.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/38519
Identification Number/DOI	10.1007/s10784-014-9265-2
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Department of Geography and Environmental Science
Publisher	Springer
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