Abstract
Reflecting on the idea of justice and the consideration of interests, particularly economic ones, opens up a considerable field of study, even if we take legal analysis as our starting point. To try to circumscribe the object of this research, the choice was made to start from a situation, provoking the tension of the idea of justice in an original way and to envisage a new legal answer. In this respect, starting with industrial disasters was the obvious choice for several reasons. On the one hand, the phenomenon is global, since disasters have occurred in both developed and developing countries. On the other hand, it questions the idea of justice in a complex way because the consequences are not univocal and the profile of the victims is very diverse. Finally, the modalities of legal intervention to regulate these situations lead us to consider a transnational framework of intervention consistent with the scope of industrial disasters. Nevertheless, this regulation, within treaties negotiated between countries and which comes under international economic law, is not self-evident. In order to go beyond the national horizon in terms of legal norms, it was therefore necessary to identify a concept that could justify it: socio-environmental justice.
JEL Codes: K31, K33.