What's law got to do with it? Why environmental justice is essential to ecosystem service valuation

Alexandra Aragão, Sander Jacobs and An Cliquet

Ecosystem Services, 2016, vol. 22, issue PB, 221-227

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to show that bringing together legal science and other sciences in integrated valuation of ecosystem services can contribute for environmental justice and ensure fair and acceptable answers to complex real life questions. Legal science provides the teleological framework necessary to prevent ethical deadlocks.

Keywords: Ecosystem service valuation; Distributive justice; Commutative justice; Retributive justice; Restorative justice; Procedural justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.09.012

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