Resource equity

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Resource equity is an environmental policy and environmental ethical term. It combines elements of distributive justice and climate justice , and is based on the observation that in countries that are rich in resources such as minerals and other naturally occurring primary raw materials , many people still live in poverty. In order to remedy this contradiction, which is perceived as unjust, a global fair distribution of all natural occurrences should be achieved through resource equity.

Sub-areas

Gini coefficient (in percent) of income distribution (World Bank, 2014)

As a sub-concept of distributive justice, the term resource justice first emerged from the repeated observation that resources, which should actually be a blessing, developed into a curse for the people in those areas in which they occur (see resource curse ). There are various reasons for this, some of which occur in isolation, others in combination, for example:

  • The extraction of resources such as B. Petroleum causes serious environmental damage .
  • The resources are controlled by a small elite who take the profits or hide them.
  • Resources in developing countries are extracted by corporations from the industrialized countries, with the latter largely keeping the profits to themselves.
  • Corporations can try to patent genetic resources .

Paths to resource equity

Tilman Santarius, board member at Germanwatch , recommends four guiding principles for resource equity: "Securing livelihood rights, reducing resource claims, enabling fair exchange, compensating for disadvantages." In the memorandum of the Heinrich Böll Foundation "Shaping justice - resource policy for a fair future" (2014 ) is required:

  • “[...] give the rights of people and nature priority over markets and profits and enable people to assert and demand their rights;
  • stop the concentration of power and return access to, and control of, natural resources, financial capital and technology to the people;
  • Making production, consumption and livelihoods socially and ecologically fair. "

See also

literature

  • INKOTA-Dossier 16: Resource equity - In search of a different raw materials policy
  • G. Kier, D. Bernhardt, C. Bals: Renewable energies. A chance for resource equality and preservation of the natural foundations of life, Germanwatch 2004, ISBN 3-9806280-8-6
  • Heinrich Böll Foundation: Shaping Justice - Resource Policy for a Fair Future, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86928-128-5
  • Wuppertal Institute : Fair Future. Limited resources and global justice, Munich 2005, ISBN 3 406 52788 4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ André Zantow: Between resource justice and biopiracy Germany Funk , April 8, 2013
  2. ↑ Tilman Santarius: What Is Resource justice? In: Contradiction , No. 54, 2008, pp. 127–137.
  3. ↑ Heinrich Böll Foundation: Shaping Justice - Resource Policy for a Fair Future Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86928-128-5 See p. 13 there