Benefiting From the Environmental Justice Paradigm as a Conceptual Framework in Turkey

The article argues that Turkey has entered a new wave of environmental consciousness and collective action that embraces a new environmental paradigm in which human-environment relations are also questioned. Consequently, today's environmental awareness and activism in Turkey cannot be read or explained solely within the limits of the mainstream environmentalist framework or capitalist/neoliberal critique framework; there is a need for a more comprehensive and inclusive framework, and this is offered by the Environmental Justice Paradigm. This article presents the context and boundaries of environmental justice concept and paradigm, and also provides a new window to read and explain recent environment-related social distress in Turkey with a different scope.