Green, Fergus;
(2023)
13. Ecological Limits: Science, Justice, Policy, and the Good Life.
In: Robeyns, Ingrid, (ed.)
Having Too Much: Philosophical Essays on Limitarianism.
(pp. 335-360).
Open Book Publishers: Cambridge, UK.
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Abstract
Recent years have witnessed a revival of scientific, political and philosophical discourse concerning the notion of ecological limits. This article provides a conceptual overview of descriptive ecological limit claims—i.e. claims that there are real, biophysical limits—and reviews work in political and social philosophy in which such claims form the basis of proposals for normative limits. The latter are classified in terms of three broad types of normative theorising: distributive justice, institutional/legal reform, and the good life. Within these three categories, the article reviews normative proposals for limits on both aggregate‐level and individual‐level ecological exploitation. It also considers the relevance of political and ideological facts to the normative analysis of ecological limits, raising methodological questions about how normative theorists should respond to a world facing escalating ecological challenges.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | 13. Ecological Limits: Science, Justice, Policy, and the Good Life |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800649668 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.11647/OBP.0338.13 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0338.13 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2023. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CC-BY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10178975 |
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