Abstract Focusing on the relationship between distributional justice and hegemonic world orders, this article turns attention to a fundamental contradiction in historical capitalism profitability legitimacy that manifests itself successive creative destructions of orders. Through comparative–historical analysis hegemonies, I show increasing injustices during periods ‘legitimacy crisis’ compel n...

Flood risk of all types of flooding is projected to increase based on climate change projections and increases in damage potential. These challenges are likely to aggravate issues of justice in flood risk management (hereafter FRM). Based on a discursive institutionalist perspective, this paper explores justice in Dutch FRM: how do institutions allocate the responsibilities and costs for FRM fo...

Exposure to transportation noise is a highly prevalent health burden in urban areas. Social-spatially unequal distributions of exposure can contribute inequalities (distributional environmental justice). Noise action planning according the EU Environmental Directive instrument for abatement at local level. In this context, public participation terms procedural justice becomes relevant. Socio-sp...

In our study we investigated the motivational and ideological correlates of the approval of welfare services in postsocialist Central Eastern and Western Europe. In the centre of our inquiry stood how the motivations of selflessness and conventionality, along with distributional justice principles, are related to our welfare preferences beyond our rational self-interest, furthermore, how these ...

Gender continues to be a relatively marginal issue in environmental justice debates and yet it remains an important aspect of injustice. To help redress the balance, this article explores women's experience of environmental justice through a review of the existing literature and the author's prior qualitative research, as well as her experience of environmental activism. The analysis confirms t...

“Residents Against Dirty Energy” (RADE) are a community-led energy activist group in Bristol city, UK. Since their inception, they have effectively lobbied the city council for deployment of battery storage units place diesel generators Lockleaze, north Bristol. As result, Lockleaze now hosts facilities with 15MW capacity able to store excess from grid. Drawing on focus (n = 8) local actors and...

How to distribute welfare in a society is a key issue in the subject of distributional justice, which is deeply involved with notions of fairness. Following a thought experiment by Dworkin, this work considers a society of individuals with different preferences on the welfare distribution and an official to mediate the coordination among them. Based on a simple assumption that an individual's w...