Abstract:
In this presentation, I compare how theorising from sustainability and integrating sustainability ex-post in non-anthropocentric theories of just conservation differ from each other. I thereby argue for the former approach by engaging the example of habitat rights as a recent area of philosophical debate which can be understood as contributing to non-anthropocentric accounts of just conservation. In this context, not all non-anthropocentric accounts of justice are as good as others with respect to their theoretical potential to integrate and take seriously the dynamic nature of sustainability. Ultimately this implies that I argue from within a non-anthropocentric perspective against the current dominant animal rights approach in political thought in favour of starting from sustainability.