Speak for Nature: Interdisciplinary Approaches on Ecological Justice

The current ecological challenges require new approaches to understanding how we interact with the environment. Building on the concept of ecological justice (EJ), the distributive paradigm where nature is no longer simply “a factor” of justice but an actor that “receives,” the EU-funded Speak4Nature project will develop new socio-legal instruments and methodologies to provide a theoretical and operational basis in social and environmental sciences to ensure non-human nature participation in legal instances. By defining why and how different social sciences extend moral consideration to non-human nature, the project will conceptualize EJ from a multidisciplinary, intersectoral and international perspective. Project work will ultimately lead to ensuring interhuman, interspecies and intergenerational fairness.