Editing Distributive justice (section)

===Environmental justice===
{{Main|Environmental justice}}
Distributive justice in an environmental context is the equitable distribution of a society's technological and environmental risks, impacts, and benefits. These burdens include exposure to hazardous waste, land appropriation, armed violence, and murder.<ref name=":11">{{Cite journal|last=Downey|first=Liam|date=November 20, 2010|title=Natural Resource Extraction, Armed Violence, and Environmental Degradation|journal=Organization and Environment|volume=23|issue=4|pages=417–445|doi=10.1177/1086026610385903|pmc=3169238|pmid=21909231}}</ref><ref name="MMIWG_2019_vol1a">{{cite report|url=https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Final_Report_Vol_1a.pdf|title=Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls|volume=1a|page=728|isbn=978-0-660-29274-8}} CP32-163/2-1-2019E-PDF</ref><ref name=":33">{{Cite journal|last=Scheidel|first=Arnim|date=July 2020|title=Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview|journal=Global Environmental Change|volume=63|page=102104 |doi=10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102104 |pmid=32801483 |pmc=7418451 }}</ref> Distributive justice is an essential principle of environmental justice because there is evidence that shows that these burdens cause health problems, negatively affect quality of life, and drive down property value.

The potential negative social impacts of [[environmental degradation]] and regulatory policies have been at the center environmental discussions since the rise of environmental justice.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=McGurty|first1=Eileen|date=1997|title=From NIMBY to Civil Rights: The Origins of the Environmental Justice Movement|journal=Environmental History|volume=2|issue=3|pages=301–323|doi=10.2307/3985352|jstor=3985352|s2cid=143296214 }}<!--|access-date=April 4, 2016--></ref> Environmental burdens fall disproportionately upon the [[Global North and Global South|Global South]], while benefits are primarily accrued to the Global North.<ref name=":32">{{Cite journal|last=Adeola|first=Francis|date=2001|title=Environmental Injustice and Human Rights Abuse: The States, MNCs, and Repression of Minority Groups in the World System|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24707236|journal=Human Ecology Review|volume=8|issue=1|pages=39–59|jstor=24707236}}</ref>