LibGuides: Climate Justice: Ecological Justice

Ecological Justice

While climate justice focuses attention on the disproportionate consequences of climate change on the communities that have contributed the least to creating the problem, ecological justice takes a broader approach to include attention on non-human entities such as plants and animals and the ecosystems on which they depend. Ecological justice contends that humans have an obligation to ensure all sentient beings have an opportunity to thrive.

Selected Ecological Justice Resources

University of Michigan Center for Sustainable Systems
A large repository of research related to environmental issues.
Biodiversity loss in warming oceans
Standford Doerr School of Sustainability.
Land-Use Change and Biodiversity
Princeton University Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment.
Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Current history aims to observe and explain the profound changes transforming every region of the world, providing readers with a better understanding of today’s crucial events and pressing global trends through contributions from leading and emerging experts and scholars.

Books on Ecological Justice

Ecological Justice and the Extinction Crisis by Wienhues
ISBN: 1529208521
Publication Date: 2020-10-07
As the biodiversity crisis deepens, Anna Wienhues sets out radical environmental thinking and action to respond to the threat of mass species extinction. The book conceptualises large-scale injustice endangering non-humans, and signposts new approaches to the conservation of a shared planet. Developing principles of distributive ecological justice, it builds towards a bold vision of just conservation that can inform the work of policy makers and activists. This is a timely, original and compelling investigation into ethics in the natural world during the Anthropocene, and a call for biocentric ecological justice before it is too late.