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Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds by Ben Almassi is a wide-ranging text which suggests that reparative justice can challenge and invigorate existing ethical debates about topics as diverse as environmental injustice, ecological restoration, and interspecies relationships. Throughout the text, Almassi takes a neglected but important position in environmental ethics by emphasizing the ethics of the nonideal scenarios that describe much of life. While Almassi identifies a number of issues which should spark further study, most promising is his reflection on intergenerational reparative justice in an era of climate change. --Sarah Fredericks, University of Chicago A compelling guide to repairing historic wrongdoing, this is the book for the tensions of our time. With philosophical rigor, Almassi braids diverse voices on history, morality, and policy to imagine genuine environmental justice. --Kyle Whyte, University of Michigan This is a clear and engaging book, which takes as its starting point the need for justice and relational repair in the wake of environmental damage. Building on diverse thinkers and wide-ranging literatures, Almassi develops important new lines of inquiry by showing the salience of moral repair for environmental justice. Deftly weaving together theory and practice, this insightful contribution provides a relational lens through which to consider topics as varied as ecological restoration, animal ethics, toxic waste, and intergenerational ethics. --Marion Hourdequin, Colorado College

Almassi's insightful book on Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds delivers a most illuminating and thoughtful contribution to the field of morality, ethics and environmental justice. Almassi has truly achieved what he had set out to achieve. He has thoroughly examined the issue of ethical issue of reparative environmental justice-- Philosophy in Review A compelling guide to repairing historic wrongdoing, this is the book for the tensions of our time. With philosophical rigor, Almassi braids diverse voices on history, morality, and policy to imagine genuine environmental justice.--Kyle Whyte, University of Michigan Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds by Ben Almassi is a wide-ranging text which suggests that reparative justice can challenge and invigorate existing ethical debates about topics as diverse as environmental injustice, ecological restoration, and interspecies relationships. Throughout the text, Almassi takes a neglected but important position in environmental ethics by emphasizing the ethics of the nonideal scenarios that describe much of life. While Almassi identifies a number of issues which should spark further study, most promising is his reflection on intergenerational reparative justice in an era of climate change.--Sarah Fredericks, University of Chicago This book argues that the best way to respond to environmental injustice is with reparative environmental justice. The central concept here is what Almassi refers to as relational repair. He contrasts this theory with retributive theories and theories based on restitution. Restoring a victim's standing in one's community is central to this theory of relational repair--monetary payments and punishments for offenders are secondary.... This volume will be especially useful to those with research interests in environmental justice, environmental ethics, and, more broadly, questions of justice in political philosophy. Recommended.-- Choice This is a clear and engaging book, which takes as its starting point the need for justice and relational repair in the wake of environmental damage. Building on diverse thinkers and wide-ranging literatures, Almassi develops important new lines of inquiry by showing the salience of moral repair for environmental justice. Deftly weaving together theory and practice, this insightful contribution provides a relational lens through which to consider topics as varied as ecological restoration, animal ethics, toxic waste, and intergenerational ethics.--Marion Hourdequin, Colorado College

A compelling guide to repairing historic wrongdoing, this is the book for the tensions of our time. With philosophical rigor, Almassi braids diverse voices on history, morality, and policy to imagine genuine environmental justice. --Kyle Whyte, University of Michigan This is a clear and engaging book, which takes as its starting point the need for justice and relational repair in the wake of environmental damage. Building on diverse thinkers and wide-ranging literatures, Almassi develops important new lines of inquiry by showing the salience of moral repair for environmental justice. Deftly weaving together theory and practice, this insightful contribution provides a relational lens through which to consider topics as varied as ecological restoration, animal ethics, toxic waste, and intergenerational ethics. --Marion Hourdequin, Colorado College

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Ben Almassi is associate professor of philosophy and affiliate professor of gender & sexuality studies and interdisciplinary studies at Governors State University, in University Park, Illinois.

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