Distributive Conflicts, Environmental Justice, and Socio-Spatial Inequalities

Abstract

This panel foregrounds the distributive and socio-spatial consequences of urban environmental interventions. Focusing on waste governance, transport policy, and the production of gated or protected urban environments, the papers interrogate how sustainability policies redistribute environmental risks, benefits, and forms of security across social groups. While often framed as technocratic or universally beneficial, these interventions frequently intersect with existing inequalities along lines of class, ethnicity, mobility, and place. The panel advances an environmental justice perspective that highlights how urban environmental action can simultaneously mitigate ecological harm while reproducing, or intensifying, patterns of social exclusion.

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The Co-Ontological Securities of Gated Lifeworlds: Atmospheres and Foamed Immunologies Under Late Modernity	View Paper Details
Environmental Justice and Municipal Waste Policy Failure: How Institutional Blind Spots Reproduce Urban Inequality	View Paper Details
Equity Aspects of Measures to Attenuate Transport Environmental Externalities: Who is Left Behind?	View Paper Details