environmental equity definition

environmental equity

Development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental policies and laws to ensure that no group or community is made to bear a disproportionate share of the harmful effects of pollution or environmental hazards because it lacks economic or political clout. Also called environmental justice.

environmental equity is in the Economics, Politics, & Society and Environment & Pollution Control subjects.

environmental equity appears in the definition of the following term: environmental justice

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