Defining Environmental Justice

Theories, Movements, and Nature

David Schlosberg

Important statement from a known and highly respected scholar in the field
Provides practical illustrations of how such notions of justice can be included in environmental decision-making

Defining Environmental Justice

Theories, Movements, and Nature

David Schlosberg

Description

This book will appeal to anyone interested in environmental politics, environmental movements, and justice theory.

The basic task of this book is to explore what, exactly, is meant by 'justice' in definitions of environmental and ecological justice. It 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, capabilities, and participation. 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.

Defining Environmental Justice

Theories, Movements, and Nature

David Schlosberg

Part One: Justice in Theory and Practice
1. Defining Environmental Justice
2. Distribution and Beyond: Conceptions Of Justice In Contemporary Theory And Practice
Part Two: Movement Definitions of Environmental Justice
3. Defining Environmental Justice in the United States
4. Environmental Justice and Global Movements
Part Three: Doing Justice to Nature
5. Justice to Nature 1: Distributive Approaches
6. Justice to Nature 2: Incorporating Recognition, Capabilities, and Participation
Part Four: Plurality, Reflexivity, and Engagement
7. Justice and Plurality
8. Ecological Reflexivity, Engagement, and Institutions: Implementing Environmental and Ecological Justice

Defining Environmental Justice

Theories, Movements, and Nature

David Schlosberg

Author Information

David Schlosberg is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Northern Arizona University.

Defining Environmental Justice

Theories, Movements, and Nature

David Schlosberg

Reviews and Awards

"Schlosberg's definition of environmental justice is theoretically grounded and empirically informed, resulting in a thorough and nuanced account... [T]he book is essential reading for researchers and students working on environmental justice, and will be of interest to justice theorists more generally... Schlosberg's account of environmental justice...is definitive."--Perspectives on Politics

"David Schlosberg's Defining Environmental Justice is political theory at its best, providing an invaluable review of the contemporary literature, subverting traditional political categories and distinctions, and suggesting new directions for politics and policy.... Defining Environmental Justice breaks important ground not only in advancing political theory's engagement with nature but in crafting a theoretical and political framework that draws together moral consideration for nonhuman nature with environmental justice concerns... [Schlosberg] offers a powerful critique of liberal theories of justice and their often singular focus on distribution, offering a more inclusive notion of justice that embraces recognition, capabilities, and participatory democracy."--Ethics and International Affairs