TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental justice and nuclear waste conflicts in Taiwan
AU - Fan, Mei Fang
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding from Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange is gratefully acknowledged.
PY - 2006/6
Y1 - 2006/6
N2 - How do issues of environmental justice play out in conditions of cultural diversity? This question is explored using the case of the controversy surrounding the storage of nuclear waste on Orchid Island, Taiwan, the homeland of the Yami aborigines. It provides a contextualised example that reveals that the Yami tribe and Taiwanese migrants have multiple understandings of environmental justice, and explores the questions of how we might respond to these divisions and formulate environmental policy regarding nuclear waste dilemmas. Environmental pragmatism might provide a method for defusing tensions between groups of different ethical positions and could facilitate intercultural alliance-building for dealing with nuclear waste problems.
AB - How do issues of environmental justice play out in conditions of cultural diversity? This question is explored using the case of the controversy surrounding the storage of nuclear waste on Orchid Island, Taiwan, the homeland of the Yami aborigines. It provides a contextualised example that reveals that the Yami tribe and Taiwanese migrants have multiple understandings of environmental justice, and explores the questions of how we might respond to these divisions and formulate environmental policy regarding nuclear waste dilemmas. Environmental pragmatism might provide a method for defusing tensions between groups of different ethical positions and could facilitate intercultural alliance-building for dealing with nuclear waste problems.
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U2 - 10.1080/09644010600627683
DO - 10.1080/09644010600627683
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33646433742
SN - 0964-4016
VL - 15
SP - 417
EP - 434
JO - Environmental Politics
JF - Environmental Politics
IS - 3
ER -