The Environmental justice and the government policies in Iraq: A Social Study

Abstract

Environmental justice is one of the most important pillars upon which human security is based in our contemporary world. In light of the numerous and serious environmental challenges and problems, and with the absence of important life and moral principles on more than one human level, such as fairness and sustainability, justice, in its various forms, appears as a light of hope that restores the prestige and societal legitimacy of social organization in many human societies. Indeed, the concept of environmental justice, as the equitable distribution of environmental benefits and burdens among the various segments and classes of society, is supposed to be based on an intellectual framework that determines the priorities for implementing this justice. Some of John Rawls's ideas on justice may be appropriate for enabling this intellectual framework to apply the implications of environmental justice in Iraq and in a significant number of developing countries.