The Rise of the Environmental Justice Paradigm
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- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in American Behavioral Scientist
- Vol. 43 (4), 508-580
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764200043004003
Abstract
This article uses social movement theory to analyze environmental justice rhetoric. It argues that the environmental justice frame is a master frame that uses discourses about injustice as an effective mobilizing tool. The article identifies an environmental justice paradigm and compares it with the new environmental paradigm. In addition, the article discusses why the environmental justice movement grew so fast and why its adherents find the environmental justice frame so appealing.This publication has 76 references indexed in Scilit:
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