Incentives and barriers to environmental inequality mobilization: A case-study analysis in Wallonia, Belgium

[en] Environmental inequality scholarship has sought to shed light on the unequal environmental conditions borne by poor people and racial minorities, and to challenge public policies. Most studies are concerned either with assessing the unequal distribution of environmental amenities and disamenities or with exploring the theoretical foundations of environmental justice movements. We propose an original approach to environmental inequality, focused not only on the unequal distribution of environmental burdens but also on two other types of factors: the capacity to mobilize and engage in community organizations on the one hand and the spatial dimension of environmental inequalities on the other. The evidence for this study is from an opinion survey carried out in 2012 with 1298 individuals. We use a two-step cluster analysis method to compute a classification system based on four categories of variables: socio-economic, environmental, spatial, and social capital.

Research center :

Politique européenne

Disciplines :

Law, criminology & political science: Multidisciplinary, general & others

Author, co-author :

Lejeune, Zoé ; Université de Liège > Département de science politique > Politique européenne

Teller, Jacques ; Université de Liège > Département ArGEnCo > Urbanisme et aménagement du territoire

Language :

English

Title :

Incentives and barriers to environmental inequality mobilization: A case-study analysis in Wallonia, Belgium

Publication date :

December 2016

Journal title :

Environmental Science and Policy

ISSN :

1462-9011

eISSN :

1873-6416

Publisher :

Elsevier

Volume :

Pages :

208-216

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Name of the research project :

Bourse IPRA

Funders :

IWEPS - Institut Wallon de l'Évaluation, de la Prospective et de la Statistique [BE]

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