Environmental Harm: An Eco-justice Perspective

✍ Scribed by Rob White

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Series: Policy Press - Studies in Social Harm
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Challenging conventional definitions of environmental harm, this book considers the problem from an eco-justice perspective. Rob White here identifies and systematically analyzes three interconnected approaches to environmental harm: environmental justice (which focuses on harm to humans), ecological justice (which focuses on harm to the environment), and species justice (which focuses on harm to non-human animals). Examining the efforts of activists and social movements engaged in these causes, White describes the tensions between the three approaches and calls for a new eco-justice framework that will allow for the reconciliation of these differences.