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"Preface" [2015] ELECD 869; in Martin, Paul; Bigdeli, Z. Sadeq; Daya-Winterbottom, Trevor; du Plessis, Willemien; Kennedy, Amanda (eds), "The Search for Environmental Justice" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015) xii

Book Title: The Search for Environmental Justice

Editor(s): Martin, Paul; Bigdeli, Z. Sadeq; Daya-Winterbottom, Trevor; du Plessis, Willemien; Kennedy, Amanda

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781784719418

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

Preface
Environmental justice is a massive topic. Justice itself means different
things to different scholars, and the `environmental' descriptor adds new
dimensions. Notably considering the environmental dimension adds the
possibility that non-humans may have rights that should be given legal
status, and that human interests in the natural world may give rise to
unique jurisprudential considerations. Our aim with this book has been
to provide a window into treatments of this topic that are of interest to
scholars within the environmental law academy of the IUCN. We do not
pretend that this group of academics have a unified perception of the scope
of environmental justice or the evolving jurisprudence within it. Virtually
any sub-topic of environmental justice covered in this edition can easily
justify a complete book. Our ambition with this book is to introduce the
reader to the diversity and richness of scholarship in this fascinating and
strengthening field of investigation. Even given this limited aim, we know
that there are dimensions of the topic that we have not touched upon.
The book is divided into four parts, though such subdivision is artificial
because many themes and issues are interwoven through the chapters.

1. Part I (Framing the search for environmental justice) considers
perspectives of scholars and judges upon the fundamental nature of
environmental justice.
2. Part II (Rights-based conceptualisations) takes a pragmatic perspec-
tive on the ways in which human interests are being pursued through
legal rights, and the implications of this for environmental justice.
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