Should Justice for People Come Before Justice for the Environment? Examining Students’ Reflections on Environmental Ethics

Helen Kopnina

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-13905-6_10

Should Justice for People Come Before Justice for the Environment? Examining Students’ Reflections on Environmental Ethics

Helen Kopnina^*

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This chapter will discuss Bachelor level students’ perceptions of social (environmental) and ecological justice. Social justice concerns the fairness of distribution procedures, based on individual moral convictions of fairness and the willingness to obey the demands of authorities (Hegtvedt in Justice. Advances in group processes. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, p. 371, 2008: ix-x). Social justice focuses on equalizing power relationship and access to natural resources among different social groups. While in some definitions environmental justice may encompass ecological justice (Schlosberg in Defining environmental justice: theories, movements, and nature. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007), most commonly it is associated with fairness in the distribution of environmental risks and benefits among human groups (Kopnina in Earth Perspectives 1: 8, 2014a).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Conservation
Subtitle of host publication	Integrating Social and Ecological Justice
Editors	Helen Kopnina, Haydn Washington
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	139-152
Number of pages	14
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030139056
ISBN (Print)	9783030139049
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13905-6_10
Publication status	Published - 6 Aug 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Should Justice for People Come Before Justice for the Environment? Examining Students’ Reflections on Environmental Ethics. / Kopnina, Helen.
Conservation: Integrating Social and Ecological Justice. ed. / Helen Kopnina; Haydn Washington. 1st. ed. Cham: Springer, 2019. p. 139-152.

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