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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955639503321

Autore

Dobson Andrew

Titolo

Justice and the environment : conceptions of environmental sustainability and theories of distributive justice / / Andrew Dobson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998

ISBN

0-19-159907-7

1-281-98964-9

9786611989644

0-19-152235-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (ix, 280 pages)

Disciplina

363.7/03

Soggetti

Environmental justice

Environmental policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""PART I""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Environmental Politics and Distributive Justice""; ""PART II""; ""2. Three Conceptions of Environmental Sustainability33""; ""3. The Dimensions of Social Justice""; ""PART III""; ""4. Critical Natural Capital and Social Justice (Part I)""; ""5. Critical Natural Capital and Social Justice (Part II)""; ""6. Irreversibility and Social Justice""; ""7. Natural Value and Social Justice""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Index"";

Sommario/riassunto

An analysis of the relationship between environmental sustainability and social justice, this text concludes that radical environmental demands are only incompletely served by couching them in terms of justice.