The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Restorative Justice

This handbook explores the dynamic new field of Environmental Restorative Justice. Authors from diverse disciplines discuss how principles and practices of restorative justice can be used to address the threats and harms facing the environment today. The book covers a wide variety of subjects, from theoretical discussions about how to incorporate the voice of future generations, nature, and more-than-human animals and plants in processes of justice and repair, through to detailed descriptions of actual practices of Environmental Restorative Justice. The case studies explored in the volume are situated in a wide range of countries and in the context of varied forms of environmental harm - from small local pollution incidents, to endemic ongoing issues such as wildlife poaching, to cataclysmic environmental catastrophes resulting in cascades of harm to entire ecosystems. Throughout, it reveals how the relational and caring character of a restorative ethos can be conducive to finding solutions to problems through sharing stories, listening, healing, and holding people and organisations accountable for prevention and repairing of harm. It speaks to scholars in Criminology, Sociology, Law, and Environmental Justice and to practitioners, policy-makers, think-tanks and activists interested in the environment.


Brunilda Pali is Senior Researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, KU Leuven, Belgium. She co-edited with Ivo Aertsen Critical Restorative Justice (2017) and Restoring Justice and Security in Intercultural Europe (2018). She has an interdisciplinary background and researches and publishes on gender and feminism, critical social theory, environmental and restorative justice, cultural and critical criminology, and arts. 

Miranda Forsyth is Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University. Her work sits at the intersection of justice, anthropology and criminology.  She has published extensively on non-state justice systems and restorative justice in Oceania and in Australia, including A Bird that Flies with Two Wings (2009) and Weaving Intellectual Property (2015).

Felicity Tepper is Senior Research Officer at the School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University. She has an extensive background in environmental law and policy in both the public and private sectors. Her research interests include environmental restorative justice, environmental governance, ecosystem restoration and post-disaster social-ecological recovery and resilience.