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Justice and Natural Resources
Environmental Values
  • Steven Luper, Trinity University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-1992
Disciplines
Abstract

Justice entitles everyone in the world, including future generations, to an equitable share of the benefits of the world's natural resources. I argue that even though both Rawls and his libertarian critics seem hostile to it, this resource equity principle, suitably clarified, is a major part of an adequate strict compliance theory of global justice whether or not we take a libertarian or a Rawlsian approach. I offer a defence of the resource equity principle from both points of view.

Identifier
10.3197/096327192776680160
Publisher
White Horse Press
Citation Information
Luper-Foy, S. (1992). Justice and natural resources. Environmental Values, 1(1), 47-64. doi:10.3197/096327192776680160