ABSTRACT
In A Theory of Ecological Justice, Baxter argues for ecological justice - that is, for treating species besides homo sapiens as having a claim in justice to a share of the Earth's resources. It explores the nature of justice claims as applied to organisms of various degrees of complexity and describes the institutional arrangements necessary to integrate the claims of ecological justice into human decision-making.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
The concept of ecological justice
part |2 pages
PART I How to think about moral issues
chapter |15 pages
The case for social constructivism considered
What is at issue in the universalist–contextualist dispute
chapter |15 pages
Contextualist rather than universalist and rationalist morality?
part |2 pages
Part II The case for the moral considerability of all organisms
chapter |15 pages
The restriction of moral status to sentient organisms
chapter |15 pages
The moral status of the non-sentient
part |2 pages
Part III The case for ecological justice
chapter |18 pages
The concept of ecological justice
Objections and replies Objections in principle to the idea of ecological justice
chapter |15 pages
Liberal theories of justice and the non-human
chapter |16 pages
Ecological justice and justice as impartiality
chapter |14 pages
Ecological justice and the non-sentient
chapter |13 pages
Ecological justice and the sentient
part |2 pages
Part IV Institutional arrangements for ecological justice
