Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature

US: Oxford University Press, 2009. Paperback. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This book will appeal to anyone interested in environmental politics, envir onmental movements, and justice theory. The basic task of this book is to explore what, exactly, is meant by 'justi ce' in definitions of environmental and ecological justice. It examines how the term is used in both self-described environmental justice movements an d 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 notion s of justice based in recognition, capabilities, and participation. Through out, 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.