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Fairness and futurity : essays on environmental sustainability and social justice / edited by Andrew Dobson
Bib ID 244614
Format BookBook
Description Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 
xi, 328 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. 
ISBN 0198294883
0198294891 (paperback)
Summary

Fairness and Futurity: Essays on Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice brings together leading international figures in political theory and sociology, as well as representatives from the political community, to consider the normative issues at stake in the relationship between environmental sustainability and social justice. It raises important questions and sets out to provide the answers. If future generations are owed justice, what should we bequeath them? Is 'sustainability' an appropriate medium for environmentalists to express their demands? Is environmental protection compatible with intra-generational justice? Is environmental sustainability a luxury when social peace has broken down?

Full contents
  • Introduction / Andrew Dobson
  • 1. Sustainable Development as a Contested Concept / Michael Jacobs
  • 2. Sustainability: Should We Start From Here? / Alan Holland
  • 3. Sustainable Development and Our Obligations to Future Generations / Wilfred Beckerman
  • 4. Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice / Brian Barry
  • 5. Ecology and Opportunity: Intergenerational Equity and Sustainable Options / Bryan Norton
  • 6. Social Justice and Environmental Goods / David Miller
  • 7. An Extension of the Rawlsian Savings Principle to Liberal Theories of Justice in General / Marcel Wissenburg
  • 8. Sustainable Development and Accumulation of Capital: Reconciling the Irreconcilable? / Ted Benton
  • 9. Must the Poor Pay More? Sustainable Development, Social Justice, and Environmental Taxation / Stephen Tindale and Chris Hewett
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-324) and index.

Subjects Sustainable development.  |  Social justice.  |  Intergenerational relations.
Other authors/contributors Dobson, Andrew

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