What is environmental justice?

2.1.1 Preventive Principle The ex ante logic: the harm prevented cheaper-and-better than cured — the assessment-before- action (the EIA's philosophical base); the preventive measures' priority over the end-of-pipe (the cleaner production's faces). 2.1.2 Polluter Pays Principle The cost internalisation: the polluter bears the prevention-and-remediation costs (not the society- nor-the-state) — the economic-instrument philosophy (the taxes, the charges, the deposits); the Nepali reception (the EPA 2076's compensation-and-pollution-charge faces; the Godavari Marble line's compensation ideas). 2.1.3 Precautionary Principle The uncertainty's rule: the serious-or-irreversible threat → the preventive action despite the scientific uncertainty (the burden shifted to the risk-creator); the Rio Principle 15's formulation (the cost-effectiveness qualifier); the contest (the science-vs-precaution debates — the SPS-and- hormones' interface of the trade course). 2.1.4 Principle of Common Heritage of Human Kinds The global commons: the areas beyond the national jurisdictions (the deep seabed, the Antarctica, the outer space — the humanity's common heritage: the non-appropriation, the common- management, the benefits-shared); the sibling concepts (the common concern — the climate-and- biodiversity's frame: the states' concern-shared though the resources-inside-the-jurisdictions). 2.1.5 Principle of Good Neighborliness and International Cooperation The transboundary duty: the harm's prevention beyond the border (the Trail Smelter's classic — no state may use its territory to harm another's); the notification-and-consultation (the planned- measures' information); the cooperation's machinery (the river treaties, the regional bodies — the…