ABSTRACT
Most advocates of environmental justice are not only concerned about the distribution of environmental goods and bads; they are also concerned about the fairness of the process of environmental policy-and decision-making. One of the reasons for the unfair distribution of environmental benefits and burdens is that the decisions that transform the environment are usually made by people who enjoy the benefits rather than the burdens. This chapter introduces the idea of procedural environmental justice. It considers how procedural environmental justice is related to other aspects of environmental justice, especially distribution and recognition and examines the relationship between procedural environmental justice and related concepts in environmental political theory. The chapter distinguishes three accounts of the central principle of procedural environmental justice: equality; proportionality; and plurality. It outlines a more detailed account of procedural environmental justice, developed by Hunold and Young in their discussion of hazardous waste facility siting, to illustrate the demandingness of ideal conceptions of procedural environmental justice.
