Environmental Justice

1 European Union (EU) environmental regulation covers a wide range of issues of environmental law that affect our daily life. The explicit aim of the EU for environmental regulation is to achieve a high level of environmental protection (High Level of Protection). However, the distribution of the environmental harms and gains affected by EU environmental law has received relatively less attention. Environmental justice has only recently become part of the debate in the EU (see for instance the pioneering report by Pye and others) as it has become clear that...