Inégalités environnementales en région Île-de-France : le rôle structurant des facteurs négatifs de l’environnement et des choix politiques afférents

Based on a very general meaning of environmental inequalities, two multicriteria regional typologies have been built on the scale of the 1300 municipalities of Paris metropolitan region. Bringing a first quantitative and static lecture of such inequalities, this paper develops comments about environmental criteria and factors, which are most appropriate to express this relationship. If a global connection between environmental and social characteristics of territories is highlighted here, results also show links more or less obvious depending on environmental factors and especially on the nature of these factors, whether they bring environmental amenities or desamenities. These results question the way to scientifically and politically apprehend such unequal situations.