Abstract
ABSTRACT Environmental injustices, and their civic settlements, are often fomented as part of siloed decision-making processes undertaken by bureaucrats and community outsiders. Accordingly, purposeful and affirming movements towards environmental health, and truth and reconciliation, are frequently stalled. By ignoring, or downplaying, the broad, destructive consequences of environmental injustice, institutional responses to environmental disasters further fundamentally fail to address civilians’ greatly diminished faith, trust, and capacity. This theoretical and conceptual Viewpoint introduces and operationalises “environmental health capital,” a construct defined here as forces of socio-technical knowledge, political visibility, and infrastructural and health resources that combine and reproduce one another to reduce communities’ ecological vulnerability. A fusion of environmental justice and human rights policy paradigms is proposed as a means of prevention and as a translational method to tend to the civic wounds that follow episodes of environmental injustice to generate and sustain civilians’ environmental health capital.
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