ABSTRACT
Among environmental policy and urban sustainability questions, consideration of environmental justice (EJ) is viewed as increasingly important. As mentioned in Chapter 2, empirical evidence indicates that environmental injustice exists in some circumstances, but there is heated debate as to why. A classic and continuing debate is on the degree to which EJ is a function of racial effects versus income-based market dynamics that happen to be correlated. To the extent they exist, proponents’ views of sustainable cities are also comprised accordingly.
