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Call For Papers: Special Issue of Ethics, Policy & Environment on “Characterizing the Justice of Just Transition”

We are soliciting papers for a special issue of Ethics, Policy, & Environment devoted to deepening our understanding of the idea(s) of justice at work in “Just Transition”. With roots in the labor movement, Just Transition is now a cornerstone of climate discussions, reflected in the commitment that “no one is left behind or pushed behind in the transition to low-carbon and environmentally sustainable economies and societies” (UNCDP 2023). The papers in this special issue may explore the theoretical and practical dimensions of justice at work in existing movement(s), conceptual frameworks for guiding future interventions, approaches to expanding ideas of justice, and energy/climate justice more broadly.

Proposals from any disciplinary approach are welcome, and we particularly welcome approaches offering multi/interdisciplinary and multi/international perspectives. 

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

 

 

• What would a “just” transition toward regenerative energy production involve?

• Are existing frameworks of justice adequate, or does just transition demand new approaches?

• Whose responsibility is a just transition? What role should governmental, non-governmental, corporate, and other parties play?

• How should cultural, social,economic, environmental, and other values be weighted?

• Who are the appropriate stakeholders to consider? Are the same frameworks appropriate for each group? How might theories of just transition better reflect the values of individual stakeholders?

• What does a just transition look like for the more-than-human world? 

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Please submit an abstract of less than 400 words (no completed papers!), in English, to megs.gendreau@centre.edu by 5pm (US EDT) on June 20th, 2024.

 

Please contact Megs Gendreau (megs.gendreau@centre.edu) or Nash Meade (nashameade1@gmail.com) with any questions.

Completed papers will be expected in July of 2025 with the goal of a late 2025/early 2026 publication. Papers should adhere to the Ethics, Policy & Environment Guidelines for Authors(https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=cepe2). 

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Call for Papers: The Philosophy of Biodiversity

The Monist invites submissions for an upcoming thematic issue of the journal on the philosophy of biodiversity. Publication date: January 2027

Advisory Editors: Markku Oksanen (University of Eastern Finland) & Helena Siipi (University of Turku)

Ever since the term ‘biodiversity’ was coined in the mid-1980s, it has become a synonym for the diversity of life. It does not only include the multitude of different species but also genetic diversity within those species as well various forms of different ecosystems and habitants. The purpose of this conceptual innovation was to increase the general awareness of human-caused rapid loss of variety in living beings. Thus, biodiversity was not a neutral term but an expression of concern about the permanent loss of something valuable and crucial to human well-being.

The philosophical approaches to biodiversity can increase our understanding of biodiversity as a science construct. There are normative issues such as whether human-created forms of life (for example the outcomes of synthetic biology) count as biodiversity, what are its components and how they are to be measured. How should we understand species and subspecies? How to distinguish between different types of ecosystems? There are tough ethical issues such as what ultimately makes extinction or the reduction of biodiversity wrong or right and how biodiversity is valuable. Clearly, some components of biodiversity are instrumentally valuable for human beings. But can instrumental value be attributed to biodiversity itself or could it have intrinsic value? Is relational value to biodiversity a meaningful category? Finally, there are policy issues such as whether biodiversity provides a meaningful goal for conservation and how different understandings and valuations of biodiversity be integrated into environmental decision-making. What role do considerations of justice play in biodiversity conservation policies? These are among the possible topics to be covered by the thematic issue.

The scope of the thematic issue is not limited to any philosophical tradition. The focus is not only on ethics, political philosophy and philosophy of biology but all approaches are welcome, including aesthetics, metaphysics and philosophy of history.
 

Submission Information: All submissions should be prepared for anonymous review and sent to the Advisory Editors: markku.oksanen@uef.fi and helena.siipi@utu.fi.

Manuscripts received from the call will first go through a pre-selection by the Advisory Editors. The manuscripts passing it will be sent for full double-blind review process.

World limit: 8000 words, including notes and references. Please follow the journal’s Author Guidelines.

Deadline for Submissions: 15 June 2025

https://academic.oup.com/monist/pages/cfp-philosophy-of-biodiversity

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