Environmental Justice Claim-Making

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Claim-making is the process of making several different types of claim on circumstances of a situation, in which there is environmental inequality and ultimately deciding if it is fair or unfair. Different elements are often combined in the claim-making process which play a role in finding the effective combined elements. Anyone can make a claim-making and there is no need of having a high level of education. Each claim should have backed-up supported research. With a claim-making framework, repetition, testability, and logical open discourse is accessible. Having a civil rights perspective and utilizing sociological principles are needed for a good claim, and a good one can be quite defensible. A critical eye is essential in the process of claim-making. There are three elements of making claims. The elements are justice, evidence, and process. The elements and their relationship to each other are complex. Furthermore, there are three types of justice …show more content…

The sequence of the process does not have to be linear either. Lastly, it is important to not misinterpret the characteristics between evidential description and normative reasoning in this framework. These are just some fundamental qualification prior to the complexities of the framework. Justice claim-making argue how things ought to be. The first type of justice claim-making is distributive and there are three dimensions of distributive which are, vulnerability, need, and responsibility. The concepts of distributive justice are significant to environmental justice claim-making. The second type is procedural justice, where procedures and decisions are being made whenever there is an act of participation in decision-making for a fair process. The last type is justice as recognition, it is often social categorizations as to who is respected and valued or recognized and who is

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