Urban Environmental Justice: Highlights and Shadows in the Mexican legal system

Abstract

The article analyses urban environmental justice as a new and encouraging paradigm in Mexico. Even when it is not explicitly recognized, there are principles in the Constitution, in international treaties, in a number of national laws and in juris-dictional resolutions that endorse it. Within this framework, the article builds on a critical analysis of the current highlights and shadows of urban environmental justice. In this sense, the exercise allows positioning the issue, as well as visualizing desirable tendencies during the two moments: the planning and the vindication.