ABSTRACT
Environmental justice has become a key concept in analysing the legitimation of environmental regulation, both in the United States – specifically addressing the objections of those disenfranchised from the domestic policy-making arena – and also internationally among those in developing countries who resist the exportation of hazards from industrialised nations. Sometimes referred to as ‘environmental injustice’ or ‘environmental racism’, the phenomenon has been documented for well over a decade 1 and explored academically since at least 1990 (Bullard 1990, 1993; Hofrichter 1993; Szasz 1994).
