Environmental Justice
Some Starting Points for Discussion from a Perspective of Ecological Economics
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/ecot.2006.11.3.282Keywords:
justice, Ecological economics, neoliberal economy, global governanceAbstract
This article discusses ecological justice from the perspective of ecological economics. It departs from two questions: How to apply justice in a model of economy? How to connect economy and ecology? The classical neoliberal economy does not include human and social values and it fails to reflect the natural dimension. While the contemporary neoliberal economy produces costs, which are not paid, increasing problems of injustice are produced constantly. If we do not want to let future generations pay, we need to find intelligent limits to our economic system. How can we develop the concept of ecological justice as a guiding principle for global governance, through which we could perceive and integrate the limits of economy in a constructive manner?
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