Environmental racism

As environmental racism racial discrimination in the implementation of environmental regulation, the above-average burden of individual groups by pollution or the exclusion of minorities in environmental decision-making is called.

The term was coined in the U.S. in 1987. At that time revealed civil rights, for example, emanating from landfills environmental hazards often than average minority groups such as Hispanics or blacks concerned, while the white majority remained relatively spared. As a declaration of income differences between ethnic groups have been used frequently, which resulted in relatively poorer minorities loaded in stronger and therefore lived cheaper neighborhoods. A 2007 study, however, shows that this hypothesis is too simple, and shows significantly more complex distribution pattern for environmental racism. Nevertheless, it was shown that environmental racism occurs in almost all major cities in the United States.

The term was later inter alia, also used in reference to the situation in the Niger Delta and in West Papua.

One emerged since the 1980s movement represents the environmental racism as a positive alternative especially helpful the concept of environmental justice.