Environmental justice /

Wenz, Peter S.

Environmental justice / Peter S. Wenz. - Albany : State University of New York Press, c1988. - xiv, 368 p. ; 24 cm. - SUNY series in environmental public policy . - SUNY series in environmental public policy. .

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 344-361.

The importance of environmental justice -- Principles of justice -- Property and virtue -- Property and liberty: the libertarian theory -- Property and efficiency: the efficiency theory -- Human rights -- Animal rights -- The utilitarian theory -- The limits of utilitarianism -- The nature and limits of cost-benefit analysis -- John Rawls's theory of justice -- The structure of inquiry -- Biocentric individualism and ecocentric holism -- The concentric circle theory -- The individual obligations.

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Distributive justice.
Environmental justice.
Environmental law.

HB523 / .W46 1988

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