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Issues in environmental justice within the European Union

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This paper surveys pressing issues facing current and future social policies in the European Union (EU) at the juncture of social justice demands and environmental concerns. European policy-makers have in fact only recently acknowledged the notions of environmental justice and environmental inequalities, which have been part of the US policy arsenal for almost two decades. Yet, challenges to equality and fairness in the environmental domain are many and growing within the European Union. After having defined environmental justice and environmental inequalities in the European context, the paper addresses two contemporary dimensions of those challenges for EU social policies: vulnerability and exposure to environmental disaster and risk; and fairness in environmental taxation and the related issue of fuel poverty.

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hal-03414208 , version 1 (04-11-2021)

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Eloi Laurent. Issues in environmental justice within the European Union. Ecological Economics, 2011, 70 (11), pp.1846 - 1853. ⟨10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.06.025⟩. ⟨hal-03414208⟩

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