Ecological justice and the extinction crisis giving living beings their due
As the biodiversity crisis deepens, Anna Wienhues sets out radical environmental thinking and action to respond to the threat of mass species extinction
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol
Bristol University Press
2020, 2020
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| Edition: | 1st |
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of 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
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 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
- 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
- Acknowledgements
- 10 Outlook for Implementation
- Responsibility and citizenship
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Back Cover