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Environmental Justice
The term environmental justice refers to the fair and equitable treatment and participation of all peoples, regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, color, or socioeconomic class, with respect to the development and implementation of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. It aims to ensure that all people enjoy the same degree of protection from environmental risks and hazards, equal access to natural resources and environmental benefits, as well as equal access to information and decision making, thus ensuring a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work.
It is possible to identify two critical dimensions of environmental justice: (1) protecting human health and the environment in places where people live, learn, and work; and (2) developing grassroots leadership and community-based planning and policy approaches that meet ...
- City Organizations, Movements, and Planning
- Agenda 21
- Brownfields
- Carrying Capacity
- Charrette
- City Politics
- Civic Space
- Ecoindustrial Parks
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Environmental Planning
- Green Communities and Neighborhood Planning
- Green Design, Construction and Operations
- Greenfield Sites
- Infrastructure
- Intermodal Transportation
- Millennium Development Goals
- Mitigation
- NIMBY
- Personal Rapid Transit
- Resilience
- Sustainability Indicators
- Sustainable Development
- Transit-Oriented Development
- Transportation Demand Management
- City Profiles
- Austin, Texas
- Bahía de Caráquez, Ecuador
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Barcelona, Spain
- Beijing, China
- Bogotá, Colombia
- Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Chernobyl, Ukraine
- Chicago, Illinois
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Curitiba, Brazil
- Dongtan, China
- Dzerzhinsk, Russia
- Hamburg, Germany
- Kabwe, Zambia
- Kampala, Uganda
- La Oroya, Peru
- Linfen, China
- London, England
- Los Angeles, California
- Malmö, Sweden
- Mexico City, Mexico
- New York City, New York
- Norilsk, Russia
- Portland, Oregon
- Reykjavik, Iceland
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- San Francisco, California
- Seattle, Washington
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Sukinda, India
- Sumgayit, Azerbaijan
- Sydney, Australia
- Tianying, China
- Vancouver, Canada
- Vapi, India
- Green City Challenges
- Adaptation, Climate Change
- Adaptive Reuse
- Air Quality
- Biodiversity
- Carbon Footprints
- Coastal Zone Management
- Combined Sewer Overflow
- Commuting
- Construction and Demolition Waste
- Denitrification
- Density
- Ecological Footprint
- Ecosystem Restoration
- Embodied Energy
- Energy Efficiency
- Environmental Justice
- Environmental Risk
- Food Deserts
- Food Security
- Garbage
- Greywater
- Gridlock
- Heat Island Effect
- Indoor Air Quality
- Landfills
- Light Pollution
- Natural Capital
- Nonpoint Source Pollution
- Ports
- Power Grids
- Recycling in Cities
- Sea Level Rise
- Stormwater Management
- Transit
- Waste Disposal
- Water Conservation
- Water Pollution
- Water Treatment
- Water, Sources and Delivery
- Watershed Protection
- Wetlands
- Green City Solutions
- Bicycling
- Biophilia
- Bioregion
- Bluebelts
- Bus Rapid Transit
- Carbon Neutral
- Carbon Trading
- Carpooling
- Cities for Climate Protection
- Citizen Participation
- Combined Heat and Power (Cogeneration)
- Community Gardens
- Compact Development (New Urbanism)
- Composting
- Congestion Pricing
- Conservation Subdivision
- Daylighting
- Distributed Generation
- District Energy
- Ecovillages
- Green Belt
- Green Energy
- Green Fleets (Vehicles)
- Green Housing
- Green Infrastructure
- Green Jobs
- Green Landscaping
- Green Procurement and Purchasing
- Green Roofs
- Greening Suburbia
- Greyfield Development
- Habitat Conservation and Restoration
- Healthy Cities
- Historic Preservation
- Infill Development
- LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
- Location-Efficient Mortgage
- Masdar Ecocity
- Mayors Climate Protection Agreement
- Parks, Greenways, and Open Space
- Renewable Energy
- Smart Growth
- Traffic Calming
- Universal Design
- Urban Agriculture
- Urban Forests
- Walkability (Pedestrian-Friendly Streets)
- Xeriscaping
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