Indigenous environmental justice and sustainability

Indigenous Peoples of North America: Environmental Exposures and Reproductive Justice

BACKGROUND Indigenous American communities face disproportionate health burdens and environmental health risks compared with the average North American population. These health impacts are issues of both environmental and reproductive justice. OBJECTIVES In this commentary, we review five indigenous communities in various stages of environmental health research and discuss the intersection of...

Wedging equity and environmental justice into the discourse on sustainability

Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union

Widespread pollution in the former Soviet Union (FSU) led Murray Feshbach and Alfred Friendly Jr. to refer to the “ecocide” of Soviet citizens (Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature Under Siege, New York: Basic Books, 1992). Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, in many ways and in many places the environmental situation has improved. One of the reasons for this was plummeting industrial prod...

Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice

As temporary custodians of the planet, those who are alive at any given time can do a better or worse job of handing it on to their successors. I take that simple thought to animate concerns about what we ought to be doing to preserve conditions that will make life worth living (or indeed liveable at all) in the future, and especially in the time after those currently alive will have died (‘fut...

Indigenous Justice Clearinghouse

Indigenous communities possess unique strengths but also face significant challenges. The challenges faced by some communities, such as poverty, unemployment, poor health, social dysfunction and violence, have not been addressed through traditional models of government service provision, which have failed to draw on the strengths of communities. In the past decade, Australian governments have i...