Justice and Natural Resources: An Egalitarian Theory
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (520 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198702728 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is the author of Global Distributive Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and many papers in journals such as the Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Politics, Philosophy and Economics and Ethics and International Affairs.. Chris Armstr
Along the way it addresses important real-world questions such as the following: how should access to the resources of the oceans be shared? How good are national claims to the enormous resource wealth found in Sovereign Wealth Funds? Should we stop buying natural resources from dictators? And who should pay for conservation of valuable resources such as the world's rainforests?. Justice and Natural Resources provides a systematic account of how to think about natural resources, the conflicting claims people have over them, and the implications of this account. Instead it demonstrates that justice requires a more equal sharing of the benefits and burdens that flow from the world's resources, and shared management of many of the world's resources. The volume criticises the status quo in world politics, according to which resources themselves, and decisions about how to use them, are the preserve of individual states. But to date we have no comprehensive account of the demands of justice when it comes to natural resources. Our world is increasingly marked by climate change, environmental deg
* Fabian Schuppert, Queen's University Belfast. It offers illuminating insights into a number of important questions connected to resources: what they are, who should control them, who should benefit from them, who should pay for the burdens of conservation, and how they should be taxed, to name a few. This extremely rich book not only provides the most comprehensive egalitarian account of justice and natural resources to date, but also pushes political philosophers to engage with real world policy questions. * Margaret Moore, Queen's University * . It might well become the one reference text which defines the cosmopolitan view on the place of natural resources within debates on global justice. * Justice and Natural Resources is an extremely engaging and well-written account of resource justice. This is the most comprehensive and systematic theory on this important topic to date