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 …

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; …

This article discusses the experience of the map of conflicts related to environmental
injustices and health in Brazil and its potential contribution to international movements for …

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 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 …

Since the late 1980s, Brazil has been in a process of democratization where minority groups
have actively demanded their rights and, in some cases, fostered institutional change to …

The current notion of an environmentalist movement in Brazil covers a wide variety of
organizations with different degrees of formal structure, ranging from bodies with relatively …

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 …

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 …

In recent years, environmental justice has become an important framework for the analysis
of diverse environmental conditions and a powerful catalyst for popular mobilization in …