Title: Glossary
Course: HUM 299 Environmental Humanities > Section: HUM 299 Environmental Humanities

Glossary

Terms

Term | Definitions
Disproportionate impact | Anti-racist environmental justice activists often emphasize the importance of inequities in the health impacts of LULUs on their surrounding communities, rather than attempting to discern the inte ...
Environmental racism | As an issue of social justice, environmental racism concerns how communities of color are disproportionately impacted by industrial wastes and other land, water, and air pollution. Here charges of ...
LULU | This acronym stands for locally undesirable land uses, which can include factories, power plants, landfills, highways and railyards. LULUs may have significant social benefit for a community overa ...
Procedural equit | Concerns “the extent that governing rules, regulations, evaluations criteria, and enforcement are applied uniformly across the board and in a non-discriminatory way” (Bullard) for all communit ...
Social equity | Concerns “the role of sociological factors (race, ethnicity, class, culture, life styles, political power, etc.) on environmental decision-making” (Bullard).