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A Theory of Ecological Justice
by Brian Baxter, University of Dundee, UK

Routledge Research in Environmental Politics

Routledge
September 2004: 234x156: 224pp
Hb: 0-415-31139-X: £65.00

Market: Politics, Environmental Science, Philosophy and Geography

Published by: Taylor and Francis Group


Synopsis:
In A Theory of Ecological Justice, Baxter argues for ecological justice - that is, for treating species besides homo sapiens as having a claim in justice to a share of the Earth's resources. It explores the nature of justice claims as applied to organisms of various degrees of complexity and describes the institutional arrangements necessary to integrate the claims of ecological justice into human decision-making.

Contents:
1. The concept of ecological justice

Part One: How to Think about Moral Issues: Universalist Versus Contextualist Approaches
2. The case for social constructivism considered
3. Contextualist rather than universalist and rationalist morality?

Part Two: The Case for the Moral Considerability of all Organisms
4. The restriction of moral status to sentient organisms
5. The moral status of non-sentient

Part Three: The Case for Ecological Justice
6. The concept of ecological justice - objections and replies
7. Liberal theories of justice and the non-human
8. Ecological justice and justice as impartiality
9. Ecological justice and the non-sentient
10. Ecological justice and the sentient

Part Four: Institutional Arrangements for Ecological Justice
11. Institutional arrangements within states
12. Institutional arrangements at the global level
13. Conclusion