Environmental Justice Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy

Name: Environmental Justice Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy
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ISBN: 9780195183573

ISBN-10: 0195183576

ISBN-13: 9780195183573

Edition: 2005

Authors: Kristin Shrader-Frechette

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Shrader-Frechette offers a rigorous philosophical discussion of environmental justice. Explaining fundamental ethical concepts such as equality, property rights, procedural justice, free informed consent, intergenerational equity, and just compensation--and then bringing them to bear on real-world social issues--she shows how many of these core concepts have been compromised for a large segment of the global population, among them Appalachians, African-Americans, workers inhazardous jobs, and indigenous people in developing nations. She argues that burdens like pollution and resource depletion need to be apportioned more equally, and that there are compelling ethical grounds for remedying…

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List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/3/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Introduction



Distributive justice, participative justice, and the principle of prima facie political equality



Appalachians, access to land, and procedural justice



African Americans, LULUs, and free informed consent



Equity and duties to future generations : the case of Yucca Mountain



Native peoples and the problem of paternalism



Risky occupational environments, the double standard, and just compensation



Developing nations, equal protection, and the limits of moral heroism



Taking action : public responsibility for environmental justice