中国の廃棄物処理施設の建設をめぐる公衆参加の制度化と手続き的不正義の潜在化―参加者範囲の縮小による環境リスクの分配的不正義―

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Although illegal actions and evasion of public participatory processes were previously common during the construction of waste disposal facilities (WDFs) in China, recent examinations show that public participation is being complied with by local administrations. Nevertheless, this paper demonstrates that environmental injustice potentially continues, as seen in the case study of the WDF conflict in city G. Even though the process of public participation has been apparent, followed in this case, a unilateral confirmation of stakeholders’ identities limited the participation qualifications of the inhabitants living in the area influenced by the facility. Not only were their public participation qualifications limited, which breaks the procedural justice, but they also need to tolerate a high accumulation of environmental risk from this construction, which leads to distributive injustice. Therefore, a chain of environmental injustice beginning with procedural injustice caused further distribution injustice, and this chain is hidden in legal participation tokenism.