John Rawls and Environmental Justice: Implementing a Sustainable and Socially Just Future

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John Töns

John Rawls and Environmental Justice

Implementing a Sustainable and Socially Just Future

John Töns

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Routledge
31 December 2021

Ethics & moral philosophy; Environmentalist thought & ideology

Series: Routledge Studies in Environmental Justice

Using the principles of John Rawls’ theory of justice, this book offers an alternative political vision, one which describes a mode of governance that will enable communities to implement a sustainable and socially just future.

Rawls described a theory of justice that not only describes the sort of society in which anyone would like to live but that any society can create a society based on just institutions. While philosophers have demonstrated that Rawls’s theory can provide a framework for the discussion of questions of environmental justice, the problem for many philosophical theories is that discussions of sustainable development open the need to address questions of ecological interdependence, historical inequality in past resource use and the recognition that we cannot afford to ignore the limitations of growth. These ideas do not fit in comfortably in standard discourse about theories of justice. In contrast, this book frames the discussion of global justice in terms of environmental sustainability. The author argues that these ideas can be used to develop a coherent political theory that reconciles cosmopolitan arguments and the non-cosmopolitan or nationalist arguments concerning social and environmental justice.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental philosophy and ethics, moral and political philosophy, global studies and sustainable development.

By: John Töns
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9780367627676
ISBN 10: 0367627671
Series: Routledge Studies in Environmental Justice
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 31 December 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Welcome to the Anthropocene 2. Fairness: A Magnificent Obsession 3. The Social Contract 4. The Basic Structure and the Principles of Justice 5. Political Culture and the Basic Structure 6. The Coercive Role of the Basic Structure 7. Just Savings 8. Ideal Theory 9. 'We are all in this together' 10. From Ideal Theory to Practice Appendix : An Open Letter to all the Delegates to the UN Climate Change Conference 2021

John Töns has, for the past 40 years, been active in social and environmental justice. He holds a PhD in Global Justice from Flinders University, Australia.