Distributive justice tries to ensure that the benefits and burdens of public policy are fairly and equally distributed. Distributive justice concerns itself with past injustices, such as compensation of Holocaust victims who lost property, as well as treaty violations. It tries to ensure that benefits of infrastructure development (e.g. water, roads, schools, health) will reach the least well-off and that burdens are not disproportionately laid on the most politically powerless (dam or highway construction). Distributive justice raises issues such as: What is fair? What is equal? Since exposure to environmental risks and access to resources cannot be distributed equally, how should they be shared? Economic justice is that part of distributive justice that is concerned with fairness and equity in economic affairs.
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