ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the aspects mainly from the viewpoint of environmental justice. Some of the considerations surely apply to environmental action, some to environmental philosophy, and some only to environmental justice. The chapter aims to evaluate the two-way relationship between environmental justice theories and environmental justice movement. This involves the idea that environmental justice theories can be used to analyze, distinguish, and assess the moral concerns of the environmental justice movement. For an astonishingly long time, it has been doubtful whether "environmental justice" actually exists in its own right as part of the field of political philosophy, and as such is involved in the theoretical enquiry of questions of justice within the spheres of the environment and nature. In order to construct a wholesale picture of environmental justice, we need both arrangement-focused and realization-focused understandings of it. The concerns of environmental justice, coming from the movement as well as from theorists, are apparently of a special kind.
