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Eco-Sufficiency and Distributive Sufficientarianism – Friends or Foes?

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The notion of sufficiency has recently gained some momentum in separate discourses on distributive justice (‘sufficientarianism') and the environment (‘eco-sufficiency'). An investigation of their relationship is warranted, as their scope overlaps in areas such as environmental justice and socio-economic policy. This paper argues that the two understandings of sufficiency are incompatible, because eco-sufficiency has adopted an extremely perfectionist view of the good life while sufficientarianism is committed to pluralism. A plausible explanation for this incompatibility relates to the two different meanings of the term sufficiency as a limit (eco-sufficiency) and as a minimum requirement (sufficientarianism).

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  • Philipp Kanschik, 2016. "Eco-Sufficiency and Distributive Sufficientarianism – Friends or Foes?," Environmental Values, , vol. 25(5), pages 553-571, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envval:v:25:y:2016:i:5:p:553-571
    DOI: 10.3197/096327116X14703858759099
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