Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds

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ID19925861
AuthorsBen Almassi (corresponding author)
Year2020
Publication date2020-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueReparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherLexington Books (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5771/9781498592079
OpenAlexW4401129992
ISBN9781498592079
LanguageEN
Citations received6

“One of the penalties of an ecological education,” wrote Aldo Leopold,” is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” Ideally we would not do each other or the rest of our biotic community wrong, but we have, and still do. We need non-ideal environmental ethics for living together in this world of wounds. Ethics does not stop after wrongdoing: the aftermath of environmental harm demands ethical action. How we work to repair healthy relationality matters as much as the wounds themselves. Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds discusses the possibilities and practices of reparative environmental justice. It builds on theories of justice in political philosophy, feminist ethics, indigenous studies, and criminal justice as extended to non-ideal environmental ethics. How can reparative environmental justice provide a useful perspective on ecological restoration, human-animal entanglements, climate change, environmental racism, and traditional ecological knowledge? How can it promote just practices and policies while enabling effective opposition to business as usual? And how does reparative justice look different when we go beyond narrowly construed human conflicts to include relational repair with ecosystems, other animals, and future generations

Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Environmental justice · Political science · Sociology · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Law · Philosophy

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