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Environmental Justice : Creating Equity, Reclaiming Democracy.
Explaining ethical concepts such as equality, property rights procedural justice, free informed consent, intergeneration equality, just compensation and moral heroism, this text shows how many of these core concepts have been compromised for a large segment of the global population.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cary :
Oxford University Press, Incorporated,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Environmentalism and Biocentrism""; ""From Environmentalism to Environmental Justice""; ""Understanding Environmental Injustice""; ""Overview of the Book""; ""2 Distributive Justice, Participative Justice, and the Principle of Prima Facie Political Equality""; ""Overview""; ""The Principle of Prima Facie Political Equality (PPFPE) and Distributive Justice""; ""The Principle of Prima Facie Political Equality and Participative Justice""; ""Objections to the Principle of Prima Facie Political Equality""
- ""How Careless Use of Science Can Encourage Environmental Injustice""""Federal versus Local Control of Siting: Balancing Equity and Utility""; ""A Case Study""; ""Conclusions""; ""3 Appalachians, Access to Land, and Procedural Justice""; ""Overview""; ""Setting the Scene for the First Argument: The California Farmer""; ""Another Instance of Environmental Injustice: The Appalachian Farmer""; ""Procedural Justice and End-State Principles""; ""A Procedurallv Based Argument for Limiting Property Rights in Resources""; ""Resource Transactions. Voluntariness. and the Lockean Proviso""
- ""Suggestions for Limiting Property Rights in Land""""Objections to the Argument""; ""A Second Argument tor Limiting Property Rights in Resources""; ""Objections to the Second .Argument""; ""Conclusion""; ""4 African Americans, LULUs, ami Free Informed Consent 71 Reverend Coleman and the South Side""; ""Reverend Coleman and the South Side""; ""Overview""; ""A Case Study: Homer, Louisiana""; ""The Louisiana Siting Was Not Ethically justified""; ""Objections and Replies: An Environmentally just Energy Policy""; ""Objections and Replies: No Economic Need for the Plant""; ""Postscript""
- ""5 Equity and Duties to Future Generations: The Case of Yucca Mountain""""Overview""; ""Prima Facie Arguments for Equal Treatment""; ""Utilitarian Objections""; ""Duties to Future Cenerations""; ""Consent and Future Persons""; ""Practical and Legal Considerations Affecting justice for Future People""; ""Conclusions""; ""6 Native Peoples and the Problem of Paternalism""; ""Colonialism and the Exploitation of Indigenous People: The Case of Shell Oil""; ""Overview""; ""Paternalism, Consent, and Participative justice""; ""The Mescalero Apache, Paternalism, and Waste Disposal""
- ""Environmental Justice and the Mescalero""""Geographical Inequality, Distributive Justice, and the Mescalero""; ""History of the Nuclear Waste Issue""; ""Science Relevant to Nuclear Waste Problem""; ""Conclusion""; ""7 Risky Occupational Environments, the Double Standard, and Just Compensation""; ""Overview""; ""The Double Standard""; ""Historical Background""; ""The Theory of the Compensating Wage Differential""; ""Arguments against the CWD""; ""A Case Study: Six Hundred Thousand DOE Workers""; ""Conclusions and Alternatives""