Nova Scotia
7. Environmental Geography
7.5 Environmental Ethics and Justice
Chapter 7.5
Environmental Ethics and Justice: Who Bears the Burden?
Explore the moral frameworks that shape how societies distribute environmental benefits and burdens, from climate justice and indigenous rights to corporate responsibility and urban equity.
What You'll Learn
Environmental justice demands equitable distribution of environmental burdens across communities.
Ethical frameworks like biocentrism and deep ecology challenge anthropocentric worldviews.
Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge enriches sustainable conservation and resource management.
Climate debt and intergenerational equity assign moral responsibility across nations and generations.
What You'll Practice
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Students analyze ethical frameworks guiding environmental justice and urban planning decisions.
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Learners evaluate climate responsibility, indigenous knowledge, and corporate environmental stewardship.
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Practice questions test vocabulary including distributive justice, biocentrism, and ecological debt.
Why This Matters
Understanding environmental ethics and justice empowers learners to critically analyze how environmental burdens are distributed and advocate for equitable, sustainable solutions in an increasingly resource-stressed world.
This Unit Includes
Practice exercises
Learning resources
Skills
Environmental Justice
Distributive Justice
Climate Ethics
Indigenous Knowledge
Biocentrism
NS Curriculum Aligned
