Description: EJOLT (Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade) is a European FP7 project that brings together a global consortium of activists and academics who research or use Sustainability Sciences, particularly aspects of Ecological Distribution. The 4-year project will study and map environmental conflicts all over the world.
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Evolution of the environmental justice movement: activism, formalization and differentiation
To complement a recent flush of research on transnational environmental justice movements, we sought a deeper organizational history of what we understand as the contemporary environmental justice movement in the United States. We thus conducted in-depth interviews with 31 prominent environmental justice activists, scholars, and community leaders across the US. Today’s environmental justice groups have transitioned from specific local efforts to broader national and global mandates, and more sophisticated p