Environmental justice is the fair treatment and meaningful inlvolvement of all people regardless of race, colour, national origin, educational level, or income with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws and local strategies.
Environmental justice seeks to ensure that minority and low-income communities have access to public information relating to hman health and environmental planning regulations and enforcement.
Environmental justic ensures that no population, especially the elderly and children, are forced to shoulder a disproportionate burden of the negative human health and environmental impacts of pollution or other environmental hazard.
Environmental justice ensures that there are open communication channels for stakeholdeer input to planners who are tasked with managing the environment to make it crime-free, healthy and well provided with green spaces for recreation, which are also aesthetically pleasing with a high biodiversity.