A Case for Environmental Justice

Author:   Edwin Etieyibo
Publisher:   University Press of America
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9780761873815


Pages:   166
Publication Date:   31 October 2022
Format:   Paperback
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A Case for Environmental Justice


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Issues of the environment and its sustainability are linked to those of global warming, climate change and loss of biodiversity. This is so because there is a general consensus in the scientific community that the long-term shift or alteration of temperature and weather patterns both locally and globally are the result of human activities not the least those of burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, agricultural practices, land-use changes, pollution. Accordingly, questions of environmental justice arise because of the threat that anthropogenic climate change pose to our planet. This book examines these issues using as its point of departure environmental justice, where environmental justice is concerned with environmental sustainability and the equitable treatment and involvement of people of all races, cultures, incomes, and educational levels in the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental programs, laws, rules, and policies. The book discusses, among other things, the population and consumption debate with regard to resource depletion and loss of biodiversity, problems of global policing of environmental pollution and greenhouse gas emissions by nation-states in the context of the tragedy of the commons and possible solutions to some of these problems from African and Native American philosophies and worldviews.

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Author:   Edwin Etieyibo
Publisher:   University Press of America
Imprint:   Hamilton Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.249kg
ISBN:  

9780761873815


ISBN 10:   0761873813
Pages:   166
Publication Date:   31 October 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: Environmental Justice, Biodiversity and Environmental Sustainability Chapter 2: Principles of Environmental Justice, Global Ecological Footprint and Biodiversity Chapter 3: Population and the Debate on Ecological Deficit Chapter 4: Consumerism and the Debate on Ecological Deficit Chapter 5: Redistribution of Resources and Ecological Deficit Chapter 6: Global Warming and Climate Change Chapter 7: The UNFCCC and Climate Change Chapter 8: The Three Obligations in the UNFCCC and Climate Change Chapter 9: Beneficence and Justice in the UNFCCC’s Three Obligations Chapter 10: The Obligations of Beneficence and Justice in the UNFCCC Chapter 11: Some Problems for the UNFCCC and the Obligations Chapter 12: The Tragedy of the Commons and Climate Change Chapter 13: Alternate Solution to the Tragedy of the Commons for Climate Change Chapter 14: Non-Western Perspectives on the Environment: Judeo-Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism) Chapter 15: Non-Western Perspectives on the Environment: Native American and African Worldviews Bibliography Index About the Author

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Edwin Etieyibo is professor of philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand.

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