Displacement by Development: Ethics, Rights and Responsibilities - Softcover

Penz, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521124646 ISBN 13: 9780521124645

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Identifies ethical issues raised in displacing people through development, and how an allocation of responsibilities aids compensation and environmental stability.

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About the Authors

Peter Penz is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environmental Studies and former Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University. His publications include Consumer Sovereignty and Human Interests (Cambridge University Press, 1986) and Political Ecology: Global and Local (co-editor, 1998).

Jay Drydyk is Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University, President of the International Development Ethics Association, and Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association. With Peter Penz he co-edited Global Justice, Global Democracy (1997). More recently he has written on empowerment, democracy and intercultural justification of human rights.

Pablo Bose is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Vermont. He is currently undertaking a research project with community organizations and service providers on transportation, mobility and access issues for refugees resettled in North America, from the perspective of environmental justice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521124646
• ISBN 13: 9780521124645
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 358