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Book SynopsisOne of the penalties of an ecological education, wrote Aldo Leopold, is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Ideally we would not do each other or the rest of our biotic community wrong, but we have, and still do. We need non-ideal environmental ethics for living together in this world of wounds. Ethics does not stop after wrongdoing: the aftermath of environmental harm demands ethical action. How we work to repair healthy relationality matters as much as the wounds themselves.
Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds discusses the possibilities and practices of reparative environmental justice. It builds on theories of justice in political philosophy, feminist ethics, indigenous studies, and criminal justice as extended to non-ideal environmental ethics. How can reparative environmental justice provide a useful perspective on ecological restoration, human-animal entanglements, climate change, environmental racism, and traditional ecological knowledge? How c
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Justice After the Dam Breaks
2. Environmental Injustice and its Amelioration
3. A Relational Revaluation of Ecological Restoration
4. Animal Ethics and Contexts of Interspecies Repair
5. Climate Change and Intergenerational Reparative Justice
6. Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Reparative Epistemic Justice
7. Reparative Environmental Justice in the Chicago Wilderness
8. Alone and Together in a World of Wounds
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