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Author Wienhues, Anna, author.

Title Ecological justice and the extinction crisis : giving living beings their due / Anna Wienhues.

Publication Info. Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2020.

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Contents Front Cover -- Ecological Justice and the Extinction Crisis: Giving Living Beings their Due -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introducing Ecological Justice -- Linking debates in environmental ethics and political theory -- Why distributive justice? -- Practical usefulness -- Theoretical context -- Structure of the book -- 2 Political Non-Ranking Biocentrism -- Political biocentrism -- Life and moral considerability -- Needs and interests -- Non-ranking biocentrism -- Extensionism -- Non-ranking moral significance
Implications for theorising about justice -- Notes -- 3 The Community of Justice -- Circumstances of justice -- The traditional circumstances of justice -- The problem-context -- Never-ending conflicts -- The conception of justice -- The community of justice -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- 4 The Currency of Distributive Justice -- Different interpretations of ecological space -- A new definition -- Ecological space as a currency of justice -- Operationalisation -- Notes -- 5 The Principles of Distributive Justice -- Scarcity of ecological space
Demands of justice under conditions of moderate scarcity -- Environmental justice principle(s) -- Ecological justice principle(s) -- Different levels of scarcity and the demands of justice -- Significant scarcity -- Severe scarcity -- Sustainability -- Further implications and considerations -- Entitlements and duties -- Environmental virtue ethics -- Notes -- 6 Ecological Justice and the Capabilities Approach -- Concerns -- Dignity and nonhumans -- The predation problem -- Benefits of a more limited account -- Notes -- 7 Biodiversity Loss: An Injustice? -- The recipients of justice
The non-existence problem -- The relevance of anthropogenic causation -- Biodiversity versus bio-proportionality -- Population sizes -- Notes -- 8 Who Owns the Earth? -- Historical and conceptual background -- Against original ownership: a green critique -- Original acquisition -- Owning living beings -- An unowned earth -- Notes -- 9 Visions of Just Conservation -- The proposal -- The critique -- One problem, several perspectives -- The justice landscape of habitat conservation -- Just global distribution of habitat -- Just implementation -- A distributively just compromise? -- Notes
Acknowledgements -- 10 Outlook for Implementation -- Responsibility and citizenship -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary As the biodiversity crisis deepens, Anna Wienhues sets out radical environmental thinking and action to respond to the threat of mass species extinction.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Environmental ethics.
Environmental policy.
Éthique de l'environnement.
Environnement -- Politique gouvernementale.
environmental policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
Environmental ethics
Environmental policy
Indexed Term biocentric; Conservation; Environmental ethics; Global justice; Posthumanism
Other Form: Print version: 9781529208511
ISBN 9781529208535 (ePub ebook)
152920853X
9781529208528 (PDF ebook)
1529208521
9781529208511 (hbk.)
1529208513
Standard No. UKMGB 019888316
AU@ 000067973890
DKDLA 820120-katalog:9910052109405765

 
    
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