Armenia's New Environmentalists

32 Pages·2012·9.39 MB·English

by  Lusine Harutyunyan

Armenia’s New
Environmentalists
Ursula Kazarian
President & Founder, Armenian
Environmental Network
Armenian Bar Association Annual
Conference, May 19, 2012
Why is Environment important to a
country’s development & growth?

Sustenance
— 
Shelter
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Trade routes
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Photos by Ursula Kazarian
Environmental Decisionmaking
What is Sustainable Development?
"Sustainable development is development
that meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs.”

--Brundtland Report, 1987, United Nations
World Commission on Environment and
Development
Environmental Decisionmaking
How do we achieve Sustainable
— 
Development?
Factors:
Environmental
— 
Economic
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Social
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Natural Resource Management:
Preservation vs. Conservation
Balancing environmental wealth with human
needs
Preservation:
— 
◦  Maintaining natural state for intrinsic value
Photos by Ursula Kazarian
Natural Resource Management:
Preservation vs. Conservation
Balancing environmental wealth with human
needs
Conservation:
— 
◦  Exploiting at a sustainable level to permit
current and future enjoyment
Photos by Ursula Kazarian
Defining Environmental Justice
"Environmental Justice is the fair treatment and
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meaningful involvement of all people regardless of
race, color, national origin, or income with respect
to the development, implementation, and
enforcement of environmental laws, regulations,
and policies. EPA has this goal for all communities
and persons across this Nation. It will be achieved
when everyone enjoys the same degree of
protection from environmental and health hazards
and equal access to the decision-making process to
have a healthy environment in which to live, learn,
and work.” --US Environmental Protection Agency
Defining Environmental Justice
(cont.)
4 types of environmental justice*

Distributive
1. 
Procedural
2. 
Corrective
3. 
Social
4. 
* Model from “A Taxonomy of Environmental Justice” by Robert R. Kuehn
Distributive EJ
1) Protection and elimination of
environmental risks for all
2) Equitable distribution of environmental
burdens and benefits
Procedural EJ
“Right to treatment as an equal.”
— 
Equal concern and respect in political
— 
decisions
Fairness in decisionmaking process
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Values an inclusive process over outcome
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