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Fairness, Equity, and Justice Implications of French‐Influenced Environmental Policy in Africa

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France has played an active role in the environmental policy field in Africa prior to, during, and since the European colonial era on the continent in the 19th century. However, because France's overseas activities receive inadequate attention in the Anglophone literature, knowledge of this role is scant among English‐speaking scholars. This article analyzes French activities in the environmental policy field in Africa. The focus is on five specific substantive environmental policy areas: land tenure, forestry, agriculture, mining, and the built environment. The main objective is to highlight the environmental fairness, equity, and justice implications of French activities in these areas. The activities are shown to be unfair, inequitable, and unjust to traditionally marginalized societal groups. These groups were comprised of indigenous Africans during the colonial era and, thereafter, of the poor, women, and ethnic minorities. National and international authorities would do well to institute fairness, equity, and justice as a requirement for all initiatives, especially by multinational corporations, in the environmental policy field in Africa.

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  • Ambe J. Njoh, 2022. "Fairness, Equity, and Justice Implications of French‐Influenced Environmental Policy in Africa," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 81(5), pages 927-955, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:81:y:2022:i:5:p:927-955
    DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12484
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    1. Ambe J. Njoh, 2013. "Equity, Fairness and Justice Implications of Land Tenure Formalization in C ameroon," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 37(2), pages 750-768, March.
    2. Ambe J. Njoh, 2022. "French Ecological Imperialism: A Postcolonial Approach," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 81(3), pages 581-619, May.
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