This is a critical evaluation of the context within which struggles for environmental justice
(EJ) have been taking place in contemporary Brazil focusing on some key points: the ways …

The idea of environmental racism has been gradually gaining visibility in the Brazilian
environmental agenda after its emergence in the United States. It is present in academic …

This article discusses the development of environmental justice (EJ) in Brazil, particularly
since the creation of the Brazilian Network of Environmental Justice (RBJA, by its initials in …

This article explores the need to recognise and compensate the plurality of environmental
justice claims, while paying close attention to the outcomes of the most marginalised groups …

Introduction there is strong support in the sociological literature for use of the term
“environmentalization” to characterize the historicity of the environmental issue (Buttel, 1992; …

B razil is notorious for its racial paradox: the friction between the nation's alleged racial
harmony and the complex realities of racism throughout society. Mediating this tension, as …

The environmental and social costs of Brazilian economic development have been paid by
displaced populations in rural areas and poor residents of shantytowns in urban and …

Successive strategic portrayals of the rubber tappers' struggle helped reframe ideas about
environmental protection and social equity. While local conditions shaped the movement's …

Abstract Many successful Environmental Justice (EJ) movements have explicitly connected
local problems to wider power structures and institutions in order to challenge the latter. To …

The environmental justice movement is one of the most important social movements in the
United States. Coming out of the struggle for civil rights in the 1950s and the 1960s, the …