ABSTRACT

Corrective measures and remediation efforts aimed at alleviating the conditions of environmental injustice usually depend on federal or state funding. However, such resources could disappear, leaving marginalized communities without the necessary means to mitigate environmental harm. Participatory Budgeting (PB), a process that allows residents to work with municipal governments to decide on community projects, holds promise as a surrogate source of funding. When examining the character of such an enterprise, however, one finds that it does not exactly fit within established paradigms of environmental justice. To account for this condition, one must examine how PB restructures the power dynamics that determine cleanup protocols. The paper ends by highlighting some avenues that municipalities can pursue to incorporate this process into existing budgeting strategies.

摘要

旨在减轻环境不公状况的纠正措施和补救措施通常取决于联邦或州的资助。但是，这些资源可能会消失，使边缘化社区得不到减轻环境危害的必要手段。参与式预算（PB）是允许居民与市政府合作决定社区项目的过程，它有望作为替代资金来源。然而，在审查这种企业的特征时，人们发现它并不完全符合既定的环境正义范式。为了解决这种情况，必须检查PB如何重组确定清除协议的电源动态。