Social Justice Activism

VI. Resource & Distributive
Injustice
Resource Justice (also referred to as "resource equity" or "resource
governance") is a term in environmentalism and in environmental ethics. It combines
elements of distributive justice and environmental justice and is based on the
observation that many countries rich in natural resources such as minerals and
other raw materials nevertheless experience high levels of poverty. This resource
curse is one of the main ethical reasons to demand resource justice, that is, a globally
fair distribution of all natural resources.
Factors Leading to Resource Injustice
Countries' income inequality according to their Gini coefficient – red = high, green = low
inequality (World Bank, 2014)
The term resource justice as a subcategory of distributive justice was first developed
following the repeated observation that natural resources that, supposedly, are a
blessing for local populations, turn out to be a curse. This can manifest itself in a
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