The Recognition Dimensions of Environmental Justice in Indian Country

Environmental justice theories that incorporate recognition justice will be best suited to evaluating the fairness of government-to-government relations, tribal institutions, and the provision of funds. I will make the case for a recognition-based conception of environmental justice. Though recognition is important to environmental justice in Indian country, there are three principle challenges that it faces: the sheer particularity of the situations of different tribes, disagreements over what counts as traditional, and decisions by tribal governments that do not accord with many of the values of the environmental and environmental justice movements.