In defining Environmental Justice, I find myself pealing the pages to Jamieson’s definition in Justice: The Heart of Environmentalism.
“Aristotle distinguished two types of justice: distributive justice and corrective justice. Distributive justice concerns how various benefits and burdens should be distributed; corrective justice is about punishment and compensation…. On this view the environment is a resource whose distribution should be governed by principles of justice….(Thus by) advocating the distribution of the benefits and costs of environmental resources according to principles of justice. From this perspective environmental resources are in principle no different from money, food, health care, or other distributive goods over which people have claims of justice” (Jamieson 2007, p. 90)
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