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environmental justice  

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  • Environmental justice is both a social movement and a research frame. Rooted in the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the idea of environmental justice gained traction in the United States during the early to mid 1980s. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Environmental Justice]

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