Ecological Justice and the Extinction Crisis: Giving Living Beings their Due

by Anna Wienhues

Overview

ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As the biodiversity crisis deepens, Anna Wienhues sets out radical environmental thinking and action to respond to the threat of mass species extinction. The book conceptualises large-scale injustice endangering non-humans, and signposts new approaches to the conservation of a shared planet. Developing principles of distributive ecological justice, it builds towards a bold vision of just conservation that can inform the work of policy makers and activists. This is a timely, original and compelling investigation into ethics in the natural world during the Anthropocene, and a call for biocentric ecological justice before it is too late.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529208535
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	10/07/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	242
Sales rank:	125,187
File size:	965 KB

About the Author

Anna Wienhues is a a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas of the University of Oslo. Her work focuses on environmental ethics and political theory.

Table of Contents

Introducing Ecological Justice

Political Non-Ranking Biocentrism

The Community of Justice

The Currency of Distributive Justice

The Principles of Distributive Justice

Ecological Justice and the Capabilities Approach

Biodiversity Loss: An Injustice?

Who Owns the Earth?

Visions of Just Conservation

Outlook for Implementation

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“A courageous and carefully crafted defence of the concept of ecological justice which places it at the centre of a viable environmentalist agenda.” Alan Holland, Lancaster University

“Wienhues’ radical argument that wild living organisms of all species are owed distributive ecological justice makes a provocative, valuable and original contribution to current environmental debates.” Clare Palmer, Texas A&M University

"An impressive, very carefully developed argument for an innovative theory of ecological justice, giving it its due place in the Anthropocene – and a very pleasant read.” Marcel Wissenburg, Radboud UniversityNijmegen