Environmental Inequalities Of The Urban Environment...

Page 1 2/2010 1 Debates on environmental inequalities Another approach to the urban environment William F Aburel Summary: Unlike other countries, the issue of environmental inequalities, although present in the official speeches, France suffers from a lack of political ambition. The idea defended here is that the design Historical (technical-normative) institutional environment, so the observation mechanisms and action historically constituted by administrations, hinders the emergence of this issue, including a deficit approach dynamics of unequal facts and the environment. Different designs of the environment (and justice) defended by the approaches developed abroad on this theme, as well as those deployed by some recent research in†¦show more content†¦Ecological crises and environmental tests give rise to new issues which, International climate refugees example locally or more of fuel poverty, connect facts ostensibly egalitarian and environmental situations. It is true that we remain socially unequal in terms of environmental attitudes and practices, especially their effects affecting societies and their territories no less unequally. For at least these reasons, to which we could add the new concerns for Environmental Health, we are witnessing today in France the emergence of the theme environmental inequalities and / or ecological, nevertheless after a few forays notable: from the current hygienist nineteenth century, until a few statistical studies in the 80s. Official texts by chanting the potential importance since 2000 (Conference Johannesburg in 2002; National Strategy for Sustainable Development in 2003). Of research (below), symposiums and seminars are trying to grasp the contours 1 . However, France is characterized by limited political ambition resolution on this topic (Theys, 2007) compared to other countries, especially Anglo-Saxon. This is embodied first in a pussyfooting on the same qualification that makes environmental inequalities and / o r ecological. The most conventional definition analysis reduces the exposure of populations modest to environmental loads proportionally greater. Definitely reaction, we also find more meanings and a little tote (Laigle and Oehler, 2004),