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13. Límites ecológicos: Ciencia, justicia, políticas y la vida buena

Chapter of: Tener Demasiado: Ensayos Filosóficos sobre el Limitarismo(pp. 373–400)

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Title13. Límites ecológicos
SubtitleCiencia, justicia, políticas y la vida buena
ContributorFergus Green(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0354.13
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0354/chapters/10.11647/obp.0354.13
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
CopyrightFergus Green
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-02-19
Long abstractEn años recientes, se ha visto el resurgimiento de un discurso científico, político y filosófico con respecto a la noción de límites ecológicos. Este artículo proporciona un panorama conceptual de tesis descriptivas sobre los límites ecológicos—es decir, afirmaciones de que existen límites biofísicos reales—y revisa trabajos de filosofía política y social en los que dichas tesis constituyen la base de propuestas a favor de límites normativos. Éstos se clasifican en términos de tres tipos amplios de teorización normativa: justicia distributiva, reformas institucionales/legales y la vida buena. Dentro de estas tres categorías, el artículo revisa las propuestas normativas a favor de los límites en un nivel agregado e individual de explotación ecológica. También considera la relevancia que los hechos políticos e ideológicos tienen para el análisis normativo de los límites ecológicos, lo que plantea preguntas metodológicas sobre cómo deberían responder los teóricos normativos a un mundo que se enfrenta a retos ecológicos cada vez más grandes.
Page rangepp. 373–400
Print length28 pages
LanguageSpanish (Translated_into)
Contributors

Fergus Green

(author)
Lecturer in Political Theory & Public Policy in the Department of Political Science at University College London
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5317-6016

Fergus Green is a Lecturer in Political Theory & Public Policy in the Department of Political Science, University College London. He works on the politics, governance and ethics of low-carbon transitions—including the “just transition” agenda, fossil fuel supply, and Green New Deal-style policy programmes. He has published in academic journals ranging from Nature Climate Change to the Journal of Political Philosophy, and has written numerous policy papers. Before joining UCL, Fergus completed a PhD in political theory in the LSE Department of Government followed by postdoctoral research at Utrecht University.

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