Justice & Nature: Kantian Philosophy, Environmental Policy, and the Law By John Martin Gillroy. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000. 443p. $70.00 cloth, $34.95 paper.

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That environmental problems such as groundwater contamination, global warming, and loss of biodiversity pose mounting political challenges is now widely admitted. The meager progress in reversing these trends calls into question the adequacy of policy instruments conventionally used to address them. Gillroy maintains that the environmental policy failure stems from its grounding in economic reasoning. An alternative paradigm of Kantian inspiration is his proposed remedy.