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Title
Defining Environmental Justice
Abstract
The talk will be an overview of my recent book of that title. I explore,
what, exactly, is meant by justice in definitions of environmental and
ecological justice. I examines how the term is used in both
self-described environmental justice movements and in theories of
environmental and ecological justice. The central argument is that a theory
and practice of environmental justice necessarily includes distributive
conceptions of justice, but must also embrace notions of justice based in
recognition and capabilities. Throughout, the goal is the development of a
broad, multi-faceted, yet integrated notion of justice that can be applied
to both relations regarding environmental risks in human populations and
relations between human communities and non-human nature.
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