Averting Environmental Justice Claims? The Role of Environmental Management Systems

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Edwards, Daniel (David), Jr.; Darnall, Nicole
• 署名单位: George Mason University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2010.02156.x
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 422-433
• 关键词: Supply Chain Management; stakeholder influences; equity; ISO-14001; ORGANIZATIONS; adoption; RISK; performance; pollution; POLICY

摘要

Today, more regulatory provisions are in place for protecting low-income minority populations who shoulder a disproportionate amount of environmental risk. Recognized as communities of environmental justice, industrial facilities located within these areas bear greater legal liabilities for and societal scrutiny of their environmental impacts. The authors off er compelling evidence that, in an effort to avoid regulatory and societal claims that they are disproportionately harming minority and ethnic populations, businesses operating inside environmental justice communities tend to adopt an environmental management system ( EMS). The article probes whether industries actually improve the environment as a consequence of EMS adoption or whether such systems are simply used to avoid greater governmental scrutiny without necessarily reducing overall environmental risks.