Although environmental justice has been developed extensively, both theoretically and empirically, its complementary concept, environmental privilege, has received far less scholarly attention, and it has rarely been reflected in empirical geography. Environmental privilege adds an important dimension to environmental justice scholarship, highlighting the importance of understanding environmental inequality by moving from ghettos into places where racial and economic privilege is enjoyed. In this article, I aim to start defining a review of environmental privilege themes and dimensions. Such a review of this social phenomenon will be relevant for the many fields involved in the understanding of pressing sustainability challenges and of human–nature interactions more broadly. I also draw an initial research agenda for addressing environmental privilege in the postpandemic world.

尽管环境正义在理论和经验上都得到了广泛的发展，但其互补的概念——环境特权，在学术上的关注却少得多，也很少在经验地理学中得到反映。环境特权为环境正义学术增添了一个重要维度，突出了通过从贫民窟转移到享有种族和经济特权的地方来理解环境不平等的重要性。在本文中，我的目标是开始定义环境特权主题和维度的审查。对这种社会现象的这种回顾将与更广泛地理解紧迫的可持续性挑战和人与自然相互作用所涉及的许多领域相关。