Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, 80523, USA.
School of Arts and Sciences, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, Connecticut, 06226, USA.
Ecol Appl. 2020 Dec;30(8):e02250. doi: 10.1002/eap.2250. Epub 2020 Nov 20.
Environmental injustice can be expressed through lack of access to resources, unequal exposure to toxins, and limited access to knowledge about the unsustainable environmental practices that impact communities (Bullard 2018). The ecological processes that contribute to the "perfect storm" of conditions that create environmental injustices are well documented in applied ecology scholarship; yet the human dimension or the co-production of research on those impacts seem to fall into the range of "somebody else's problem." In a literature review of the last 15 years of research published in the Ecological Society of America's family of journals, we explored the intersections of environmental processes and social justice issues, searching for themes, gaps, and opportunities. The resultant is a collection of articles on environmental justice topics that includes issues on access to resources and unequal exposure to environmental hazards and pollutants. This collection highlights gaps in the integration of natural science with social justice topics along with the need for stronger integration of interdisciplinary knowledge that is co-produced with community stakeholders and researchers to build a robust interdisciplinary field of climate justice and global environmental sustainability.
环境不公可以表现为缺乏资源、不平等接触毒素以及对影响社区的不可持续环境实践的知识了解有限（Bullard 2018）。有助于造成环境不公的“完美风暴”条件的生态过程在应用生态学研究中得到了充分记录；然而，人类层面或对这些影响的研究协同生产似乎属于“别人的问题”范围。在对美国生态学会系列期刊过去 15 年发表的研究文献进行的回顾中，我们探讨了环境过程和社会正义问题的交叉点，寻找主题、差距和机会。其结果是一系列关于环境正义主题的文章，其中包括关于资源获取和不平等接触环境危害和污染物的问题。该文集突出了自然科学与社会正义主题融合方面的差距，以及需要更有力地融合与社区利益相关者和研究人员共同产生的跨学科知识，以建立一个强大的气候正义和全球环境可持续性跨学科领域。
