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Justice and the environment : conceptions of environmental sustainability and theories of distributive justice / Andrew Dobson
Bib ID 677063
Format BookBook
Author
Dobson, Andrew
 
Description Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 
ix, 280 p. ; 23 cm. 
ISBN 0198294824 (alkaline paper)
0198294956 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
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 study, Professor Dobson, a leading expert on environmental politics, analyses the complex relationship between these two pressing objectives.

Full contents
  • 1. Environmental Politics and Distributive Justice
  • 2. Three Conceptions of Environmental Sustainability
  • 3. The Dimensions of Social Justice
  • 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.
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-274) and index.

Subjects Environmental justice.  |  Environmental policy.
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Justice and the environment: conceptions of environmental sustainability and dimensions of social justice.

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