"Sustainable Development and Social Justice: Expanding the Rawlsian Framework of Global Justice"
Oluf Langhelle discusses expansion of the Rawlsian framework of global justice in relation to sustainable development.
Oluf Langhelle discusses expansion of the Rawlsian framework of global justice in relation to sustainable development.
This paper discusses the limitations, omissions, and value judgements of the application of conventional economic analysis in the evaluation of climate change mitigation policies.
This paper explores the context of environmental justice (EJ) in Scotland, and presents a case study whereby the main attributes for an indicator of EJ were identified, encompassing procedural and distributive aspects of justice.
Marcel Wissenburg argues that ‘global and ecological justice’ represents an informal combination of four distinct and sometimes conflicting ideas: global justice, protection of the ecology, sustainability and sustainable growth.
The authors offer a manifesto for the humanities to step up to the challenges of environmental change, and invite others to join the open global consortium Humanities for the Environment.
Beth A. Bee studies the implementation of decentralized forms of environmental governance in Jalisco, Mexico, and the political and economic forces resulting in the marginalization of the municipalities affected by this project.
Drawing on interviews with 25 Australian environmental leaders, the authors ask how international instruments with cosmopolitan ambitions influence the discourse and practice of national and subnational environmentalists attempting to find common ground with Indigenous groups.
This paper uses data from a long-term ethnography of both the local people and the conservation agenda in the Pantanal wetland, Brazil, to discuss how environmentalists used the National Policy for the Sustainable Development of Traditional Peoples and Communities (PNDSPCT) to justify the displacement of local people.