EnvironmentalJustice-Rightsandmeanstoahealthy.PDFVIP

E S R C G l o b a l E n v i ro n m e n t a l C h a n g e P ro g r a m m e Environmental justice Rights and means Contents to a healthy environment Introduction for all Opportunity risk 1 Born in the USA 2 Environmental impacts: unequal and unfair? Special Briefing No 7 3 Policy responses for November 2001 environmental justice Assessment Participation capacity Integration 4 Challenges ahead B a c k g ro u n d his briefing was developed from a joint seminar of Friends of the Earth and the London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine on Environment Justice held during the Healthy TPlanet Forum of the WHO Environment and Health Ministers Meeting in London, June 1999. The briefing pulls together the results of this seminar with academic research undertaken by the ESRC Global Environmental Change Programme. The briefing was co-authored and edited by Carolyn Stephens,Simon Bullock and Alister Scott with key contributions from GECP and fellow NGOs and academics.