On the notion of ecological justice

Stefanie Glotzbach ()
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Stefanie Glotzbach: Sustainability Economics Group, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany

No 204, Working Paper Series in Economics from University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics

Abstract: The increasing loss of ecosystem services severely affects life perspectives of today’s poor and future persons. Thus, governing the use of ecosystem services in an intragenerational and intergenerational just way is an urgent issue. I develop a conception of ecological justice that establishes the specific link between justice and ecosystem services, and argue that specific demands on a conception of ecological justice follow from determining ecosystem services as objects of justice. Showing that Rawls’ “A Theory of Justice” (1971) can consistently meet the identified demands, I verify that it is an appropriate theory for deriving a conception of ecological justice.

Keywords: ecological justice; ecosystem services; global justice; intergenerational justice; environmental ethics. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q19 Q56 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2011-05
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