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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2020.
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| Edición: | 1st |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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