Environmental sustainability as the first principle of distributive justice: Towards an ecological communitarian normative foundation for ecological economics

Ecological Economics

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1887-1894

  Pelletier, Nathan ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communitarianism; Distributive justice; Ecology; Economics; Ethics; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; ETHICS; NEOCLASSICAL THEORY; SUSTAINABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77954624521     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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