Environmental Issues from the Perspective of Environmental Justice : A Suggested Research Framework to Study Today’s Environmental Issues

カンキョウテキ　コウセイ　カラ　ミル　カンキョウ モンダイ　ゲンダイ　ニ　オケル　カンキョウ モンダイ　ノ　ケンキュウ　ワクグミ　ノ　ケントウ

サカグチ, エリ

Sakaguchi, Eri

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

社会的公正

環境保護

環境問題

環境意識

environmental justice

social justice

environmental protection

environmental issues

environmental concerns

This paper reviews some prominent literature to discuss effective sociological research frameworks to study the environmental issues argued globally today. Since the late 1980s, the global community has prioritized environmental issues such as global warming and CO2 emissions on its political agenda, and these issues have been identified as what humanity ought to prevent from any further escalation. However, environmental issues are fundamentally closely related to social class and inequality, therefore, they are also the issues among all human beings. In summary, the paper asserts that the significance of the sociological research frameworks that focus on the environmental issues from the perspective of both environmental protection and social justice, namely “environmental justice.”