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 …

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 …

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 …

Since the 1970s, the ghost of an “international conspiracy” to occupy the Brazilian Amazon
has emerged against the backdrop of shifting social and political realities. This article looks …

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; …

Cleber Folgado (CF) 1: Since the occupancy of our territories, Latin America is seen as a
place to extract the necessary goods to guarantee the capital structure. From their point of …

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 …

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 …

The plight of indigenous peoples in Brazil tragically illustrates the progressive erosion of the
pillars of sustainable development. Although indigenous peoples play a crucial role in …

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 …