Allocating the Earth: A Distributional Framework for Protecting Capabilities in Environmental Law and Policy

by Breena Holland

This book advances a new distributional framework to guide the evaluation and design of environmental policies. Drawing on capabilities theory, especially as articulated in Martha Nussbaum's capabilities approach to justice, the book proposes that environmental policies should aim to secure the basic capabilities that make it possible for people to live a flourishing and dignified human life. Holland begins by establishing protection of the natural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199692076
• ISBN13: 9780199692071
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"