1st Edition

Just Conservation Biodiversity, Wellbeing and Sustainability

By Adrian Martin Copyright 2017
212 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed. At the same time, these efforts have too often resulted in unjust social outcomes in which people living in or near to areas designated for conservation lose access to their territories and resources. In this book the author argues that our... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Extinction: Can We Be Fair During a Crisis?

3. Justice as Motive

4. The conduct of Environmental Justice Inquiry

5. Taking Distribution Seriously

6. Justice as Recognition: Reconciling Social Justice with Environmental Sustainability

7. From ‘Conservation and Development’ to ‘Conservation and Justice’

8. Conservation, Markets and Justice

9. Conservation and Justice: Researching and Assessing Progress

Biography

Adrian Martin is Professor of Environment and Development at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK.

"Can nature be protected without harming local people? Just Conservation argues that it must, and shows how it can be done. Eloquently and simply, Adrian Martin makes a powerful case for placing the issue of social justice at the heart of biodiversity conservation." - Professor Bill Adams, University of Cambridge

"Adrian Martin sees the solution to this loss of biodiversity and ecosystem endangerment from a rather different perspective to the usual – that of social justice, especially for the local people… There is much that should concern us all in this book." David W. H. Walton, in the British Ecological Society Bulletin (June 2018)