EVALUATING PARTIES PROGRAMS AND THEIR LEADERS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE A FIELD STUDY ON CAIRO GOVERNORATE

Abstract

This current study drives at examining the attitudes of leaderships of the main political parties in Egypt and their attitudes towards environmental justice and its indicators, the natural, social, economic, and legislative. The researcher uses several tools including: Questionnaire Form – Scale of Attitudes (by researcher)-Personal Interviews – Observation – Statistical Treatment. The study counts on the scientific method through the descriptive study, relying also The intellectual thinking of study has been the Justice Theory for John Rowalz, The Ecological System Theory, The Update, The following up Theory, and the Conflict. Despite that those theories reflect difference, they are dedicated to several claims concerning the present study. The sample is selected semi-purposely consisting of (200) items, that leaders of political parties. The study comes to several results including that the visions of leaders of the selected parties are united in tackling with some environmental issues such as supporting the poor, combating expensiveness and higher prices. The state should provide work opportunities and conserve Egyptian lands, fighting pollution, distributing services equally for all categories,elevating the educational level, encourage scientific research, activate the ascending taxing law on income and industrial pollution, determining the least and most limit of salaries for all classes, achieving equality in front of law, and concerning with fair distribution of wealth. The study recommends the idea of conferences for political parties that can be developed to an international conference discussing environmental justice and its indicators, the natural, social, economic, and legislative periodically. That all actors will be invited to attend and participate including rights institutions, scientific research centers. The study suggests taking some experiments as examples such as the social housing in Tunis in Abou Reqiba regime, education experiment in Abdel Naser regime, improving health services in Jordan and some Gulf states. The study also recommends the importance of establishing a plan for future by the party that through which the most important problems associated to environmental justice can be discussed and resolved.