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Allocating the Earth - A Distributional Framework for Protecting Capabilities in Environmental Law and Policy (Hardcover)
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Allocating the Earth - A Distributional Framework for Protecting Capabilities in Environmental Law and Policy (Hardcover)
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This book advances a new distributional framework to guide the
evaluation and design of environmental policies. Drawing on
capabilities theory, especially as articulated in Martha Nussbaum's
capabilities approach to justice, the book proposes that
environmental policies should aim to secure the basic capabilities
that make it possible for people to live a flourishing and
dignified human life. Holland begins by establishing protection of
the natural environment as central to securing these capabilities
and then considers the implications for debates in environmental
valuation, policy justification, and administrative rulemaking. In
each of these areas, she demonstrates how a 'capabilities approach
to social and environmental justice' can minimize substantive and
procedural inequities that result from how we evaluate and design
environmental policies in contemporary society. Holland's proposals
include valuing environmental goods and services as comparable -
but not commensurable - across the same dimension of well-being of
different people, justifying environmental policies with respect to
both the capability thresholds they secure and the capability
ceilings they establish, and subjecting the outcomes of
participatory decisions in the administrative rulemaking process to
stronger substantive standards. In developing and applying this
unique approach to justice, Holland primarily focuses on questions
of domestic environmental policy. In the closing chapter she turns
to theoretical debates about international climate policy and
sketches how her approach to justice could inform both the
philosophical grounding and practical application of efforts to
achieve global climate justice. Engaging current debates in
environmental policy and political theory, the book is a sustained
exercise of both applied and environmental political theory.
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