Concepts, Policies and Practices (1)
Pillar of critical environmental justice that stresses how forms of inequality and privilege overlap with each other.
Intersectionality
Pillar of critical environmental justice emphasizing how the causes of injustice can span generations and are not bound by borders.
Scale
Federal environmental policy requiring the completion of an Environmental Impact Statement for major federal actions determined to significantly impact the quality of the human environment.
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
Pillar of critical environmental justice cautioning advocates from engaging with the state due to its role in perpetuating historical injustices.
Entrenchment
Pillar of critical environmental justice countering logics of domination and expendability.
Indispensability
The set of political and economic relationships between industrialized and industrializing countries following post-WWII decolonization.
North-South Relations
When government agencies work with Tribes representatives to preserve access to ancestral lands out of tribal control, e.g., Bears Ears National Monument.
Collaborative Management
Percent reduction in coextensive Tribal lands in the United States between Westward Expansion (mid-19th century) and present-day.
98.9 (7,011,450 km2 to 426,598 km2)
Climate policy framework meant to construct more just institutions and relationships between Global North and Global South nations, in addition to compensating Global South nations for historic and contemporary injustices.
Climate reparations
Policy framework meant to facilitate transfer of funds from Global North nations to Global South nations, to compensate the latter for contemporary climate impacts.
Loss-and-damages
When a private non-governmental actor works with Tribal representatives to maintain or facilitate access to dispossessed ancestral lands.
Land Trusts
Percent of total national overshoots of the global carbon budget for which Global North nations are responsible.
92% (875 gigatonnes of CO2)
Principle acknowledging that the largest share of historical and current global emissions of greenhouse gases originated in developed countries. Guiding principle in United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC).
"Common but differentiated responsibilities"
Federal environmental policy enabling the exclusion of Native peoples from hunting and fishing on ancestral lands located in what is now the US National Park System.
Lacey Act (1894)
Federal policy intended to preserve historic and archaeological sites in the US. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe sued the Army Corps of Engineers for violating this policy during the permitting process for the Dakota Access Pipeline.
National Historic Preservation Act
Argument that the general structure of the colonial economy remains in place, with industrial growth in the global North continuing to rely on appropriation from the South well into the post-colonial era. A response to the narrative of post-colonial innocence.
Theory of Unequal Exchange
Movement advocating for extending legal personhood to non-human nature; featured in New Hampshire Bill CACR19.
Rights of Nature
Interconnections between people, land, other life forms, and spirits; features in many Indigenous worldviews. The colonial disruption of these interconnections are at the root of environmental injustice for Native peoples.
Systems of Responsibility
Conventional belief that colonial patterns of extraction ended with the withdrawal of colonial troops, flags, and bureaucrats from the Global South; consistent with belief that the world economy today functions exclusively as a meritocracy.
Narrative of Post-Colonial Innocence
Total "drain" (in constant 2010 USD) from Global South to Global North occurring between 1990 and 2015.
$85.55 trillion (less than 1% of official development flows from North to South in same time period)