Environmental justice. From the concept to application in land planning and spatial policy analysis.

Abstract

In recent decades the concept of environmental justice has remarkably emerged as a compulsory principle for assessing geographical situations and guiding territorial decision making. In this paper, three objectives are intended: firstly, to expose shortly its emersion and conceptual meaning; secondly, to revise a wide set of recently published case studies focused on its measurement and assessment; thirdly, to provide some general guidelines for carrying geo-environmental assessments in this line, and to propose measurement tools to this end. Finally, a balance of the state of art is drawn up and some further perspectives are outlined.