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ISBN-13 :  9781000539554

Author: John Töns 

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.

John Rawls and Environmental Justice 1st Table of contents:

1 Welcome to the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene
Why Anthropocene?
The challenge
The global North and South
Understanding science
Biomes and a Rawlsian political philosophy
A question of justice
An ontology for the Anthropocene
Notes
References
2 Fairness: A magnificent obsession
Justice and Equality
Rawlsian fairness
Rawls and the contested question
The four roles of political philosophy
Reflective equilibrium
Fairness and the Anthropocene
Notes
References
3 The social contract
Game theory and social contracts
The original position
Justification for Rawls’s Theory of Justice
Public reason
Cultural and linguistic diversity
The social contract and the Anthropocene
Notes
References
4 The basic structure and the principles of justice
Justice and institutions
Global justice
The instrumental role of the basic structure
The basic structure
Notes
References
5 Political culture and the basic structure
Background justice
Culture and background justice
Understanding normality
A global basic structure?
Notes
Notes
6 The coercive role of the basic structure
In an ideal society coercion is redundant
Sovereignty and the basic structure
Concluding remarks
Notes
References
7 Just savings
The argument
Rawls’s ontology
The need for an ontological shift
Moderate scarcity
Assumptions underpinning an environmental ontology
Rawls and environmental justice
Global resilience
Notes
References
8 Ideal theory
What is an ideal theory?
Non-ideal theory
Partial and comprehensive ideal theories and idealisation
Towards a Rawlsian praxis
Objection
Transitions
Scarcity
Understanding ideal theory: Concluding remarks
Notes
References
9 ‘We are all in this together’
Return to Easter Island
Work in a Rawlsian world
The economics of justice
A POD
Notes
References
10 From ideal theory to practice
The duty to disobey
Civil disobedience
Politics in the 21st century
Environmental activism
Publicity, civil disobedience and the law
Conclusion
Notes
References
Appendix: An open letter to all the delegates to the UN Climate Change Conference 2021

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