The importance of environmental justice in stream rehabilitation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12596232
AutoresMick Hillman (autor correspondente)
Ano2004
Volume7
Fascículo1-2
Páginas19-43
Data de publicação2004-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthics Place & Environment (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1366-879X • E-ISSN: 1469-6703
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1366879042000264750
OpenAlexW2002542345
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas90

New forms of river management have emerged following widespread recognition of the environmental damage caused by attempts to harness and control rivers for navigation, consumptive water use and power generation. A dominant top‐down engineering‐based paradigm is being challenged by catchment‐framed, ecosystem‐based approaches which claim to place greater emphasis on participation and equity. However, there has been limited attention given to examining these claims, and principles of justice are frequently left unarticulated or embedded in what is still presented as an essentially technical, outcome‐driven management process. This paper examines the contribution of an environmental justice framework in articulating and explicating the ethical and political nature of decision making in stream rehabilitation practice. Particular attention is given to distributive, procedural and relational elements of justice, and to the limitations of an anthropocentric approach. A broader‐based ecological justice framework is proposed. Several key issues in applying this framework are discussed, including the need for ‘situated justice’, for multiple voices to be heard, for dealing with unity and diversity at the catchment scales, and in integrating knowledge through genuine transdisciplinary research and practice

Anthropocentrism · Distributive justice · Economic Justice · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Environmental justice · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Equity (law · Geography · Political science · Politics · Situated · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Environmental Science · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Artificial Intelligence