Environmental justice and the SDGs: from synergies to gaps and contradictions

Through their synergies, trade-offs, and contradictions, the sustainable development goals (SDGs) have the potential to lead to environmental justices and injustices. Yet, environmental justice (EJ), and social justice more broadly, are not currently embedded within the language and spirit of the SD...

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Veröffentlicht in:Sustainability science Jg. 15; H. 6; S. 1621 - 1636
Hauptverfasser: Menton, Mary, Larrea, Carlos, Latorre, Sara, Martinez-Alier, Joan, Peck, Mika, Temper, Leah, Walter, Mariana
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Tokyo Springer Japan 01.11.2020
Springer Nature B.V
Schlagworte:
Climate Change Management and Policy
Earth and Environmental Science
Economic development
Economic growth
Energy conservation
Environment
Environmental Economics
Environmental justice
Environmental Management
Landscape Ecology
Poverty
Public Health
social justice
Southern Hemisphere
Special Feature: Exploring Interactions among the Sustainable Development Goals: Case Studies from Three Continents
Special Feature: Original Article
stakeholders
sustainability science and engineering
Sustainable Development
Just sustainability
Injustice
Decoloniality
Social justice
Intersectionality
Environmental justice
ISSN:1862-4065, 1862-4057
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Zusammenfassung:Through their synergies, trade-offs, and contradictions, the sustainable development goals (SDGs) have the potential to lead to environmental justices and injustices. Yet, environmental justice (EJ), and social justice more broadly, are not currently embedded within the language and spirit of the SDGs. We part from the premise that “many ‘environmental’ problems are, by their very nature, problems of justice” (Lele, Wiley Interdiscip Rev Water 4:e1224, 2017). We review progress in EJ frameworks in recent years, arguing for the need to move beyond a focus on the four principles of mainstream EJ (distribution, procedure, recognition, and capabilities) towards a more intersectional decolonial approach to environmental justice that recognises the indispensability of both humans and non-humans. EJ frameworks, and the SDGs should recognise power dynamics, complex interactions among injustices, and listens to the different ‘senses of justice’ and desires of theorists, activists, and other stakeholder from the Global South. We analyze how EJ frameworks are, or fail to be, incorporated in the SDGs with a focus on the food–water–health nexus (SDG2, 3, 6); climate-energy (SDG7, 13), conservation (SDG14, 15); and poverty and inequality (SDG1, 10). We call attention to the ‘elephant in the room’—the failure to go beyond GDP but instead include economic growth as a goal (SDG8). We argue that sustainable degrowth and intersectional decolonial environmental justices would create better conditions for the transformative changes needed to reach the broader aim of the SDGs: to leave no one behind.
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ISSN:1862-4065
1862-4057
DOI:10.1007/s11625-020-00789-8