Planetary justice: a systematic analysis of an emerging discourse

2024/07/02 by Agni Kalfagianni, Stefan Pedersen, Dimitris Stevis · 2 voices · 1 citation
Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Climate Change and Geoengineering #Environmental Justice and Health Disparities #Environmental Philosophy and Ethics

paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/09644016.2024.2374155

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Abstract

Justice concerns have been central to contemporary social and ecological debates for decades but have only recently made inroads into the Earth system centric discourses on the Anthropocene and planetary boundaries. Our focus here is the emerging discourse on planetary justice which has aimed to be a corrective to this lacuna. Our goals in this paper are to delineate the general parameters and novel contributions of planetary justice while also recognizing the emergent variability within this discourse. In order to accomplish these goals we analyze the discourse through three interrelated analytical themes: First, how approaches to planetary justice envision scope across different human practices and categories of humanity and nature. Second, how they envision scale across space and time. Third, how they envision the ecosocial purpose of planetary justice.

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Discussions

• You can now read my new article on planetary justice published by @environmentalpol.bsky.social and co-authored with Agni Kalfagianni and Dimitris Stevis. Available open access doi.org/10.1080/0964. [bsky, 4 points, 0 comments]
• New article from Agni Kalfagianni, Stefan Pedersen & Dimitris Stevis. This is a framing article from an upcoming SI on 'planetary justice'. It focuses on three themes: scope, scale, and ecosocial purp [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]

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