Ecological justice extends all four justice components to nonhuman nature

Evidence

Ecological justice, then, has distributional, recognitional, capabilities, and participatory components. Each of these concepts can be extended to encompass the nonhuman world. We can recognize the similarities between human beings and the rest of nature, or the injustice of its status in relations with us. Capabilities can be applied to both individual animals, as Nussbaum suggests, and to broader environmental systems. We can extend participatory parity to include the nonhuman natural world in political decision-making. Ecological justice, then, has little reason to limit itself to the distributional realm. Distribution, recognition, capabilities, and participation can be tied together in an enlarged theory of Incorporating Recognition, Capabilities, and Participation justice that draws from numerous themes-a theory that is applicable in the human realm as well as the realm shared by humans and nonhuman nature. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 549

Categorization

• DEFINE: Definitively ties the book’s four-part typology (distribution, recognition, capabilities, participation) to ecological justice — the payload sentence this reading exists to extract.
• XREF: This gives the cross-course analytic tool: the same four-part justice typology now applies to nature, so Soundscape and Eco-Justice readings can ask which component noise regulation fails to deliver. — connects to: Future-generation justice extends scope to humans but not to nature as a subject. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 381; Ecological justice theory must pluralize into recognition and capability discourses — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 420; One integrated justice discourse can serve both human and ecological struggles — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 552 (+6 more)
• ADDENDUM: Directly extends the sacrifice essay’s framework: what justice to the nonhuman (beyond human sacrifice for gods) demands of recognition and capability theory.

Broader Connections

• A single environmental conflict instantiates all four justice dimensions for humans and nature #exemplifies (0.85) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 587
• Interference with other beings’ responsibilities constitutes environmental injustice #expands (0.82) — Kyle Whyte, Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and…, 22