Environmental Justice by Kristin O'neill Shrader-Frechette
Kristin Shrader-Frechette, a well known philosopher of environmental ethics, makes an ethical case for Environmental Justice. Explaining fundamental ethical concepts such as equality, property rights, procedural justice, free informed consent, intergeneration equality, just compensation and moral heroism - and then bringing them to bear on real-world social issues - Shrader-Frechette shows how many of these core concepts have been compromised for a large segment of the global population, among them Appalachians, African-Americans, workers in hazardous jobs and indigenous people living in developing nations. She argues that there are strong and compelling grounds for remedying our environmental problems and that burdens like pollution and resource depletion need to be apportioned more equally. She also argues vehemently that not only do we have strong ethical grounds for remedying environmental problems, but that these remedies need to involve the participation of those affected, that all citizens have a duty to engage in activism an behalf of Environmental Justice and that in a democracy it is the people, not the government, that are ultimately and truly responsible for equitable and fair use of the environment. Combining rigorous philosophical scholarship with a deep knowledge of actual problems in the environment and among the disenfranchised, Environmental Justice is a new look at an old problem and will encourage debate among those concerned with both social and environmental justice.
A must-read for anyone interested in environmental justice and accessible enough that it would make a valuable addition to any undergraduate environmental ethics syllabusNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews ... a valuable contribution to the literature. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Ph.D is O'Neill Endowed Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame. Author of 16 books and 380 professional articles - translated into 13 languages - and energy-environmental-health advisor to many nations and
governments, she directs the Notre Dame Center for Environmental Justice and Children's Health. She is also the author of Environmental Justice and Taking Action, Saving Lives, and Tainted: How Philosophy of Science Can Expose Bad Science (forthcoming), all published by Oxford University Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195152036 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195152034 |
| Title | Environmental Justice |
| Author | Kristin O'neill Shrader-Frechette |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2002-09-26 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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