Justice and the environment : conceptions of environmental sustainability and theories of distributive justice /
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| Author / Creator: | Dobson, Andrew. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 280 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11190136 |
| Summary: | Environmental sustainability and social, or distributive, justice are both widely regarded as desirable social objectives. But can we assume that they are compatible with each other? In this path-breaking study, Professor Dobson, a leading expert on environmental politics, analyses the complex relationship between these two pressing objectives. Environmental sustainability is taken to be a contested idea, and three distinct conceptions of it are described and explored. These conceptions are then examined in the context of fundamental distributive questions such as: Among whom or what should distribution take place? What should be distributed? What should the principle of distribution be? The author critically examines the claims of the `environmental justice' and `sustainable development' movements that social justice and environmental sustainability are points on the same virtuous circle, and concludes that radical environmental demands are only incompletely served by couching them in terms of justice. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 280 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191522352 019152235X 9780191599071 0191599077 0198294824 9780198294825 0198294956 9780198294955 1281989649 9781281989642 9786611989644 6611989641 |