ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that although questions of justice are becoming central political discourses, the very concept of justice is elusive and means different things to different people. Accordingly, the chapter aims to elucidate how we can systematically compare and evaluate justice claims or demands for justice in global sustainability governance research. The chapter proposes that a justice lens would need to clarify the subjects, principles, mechanisms, and instruments for justice, as well as the consequences of just societies. Most fundamentally, the chapter contends that critical sustainability scholars need to embrace future generations and the non-human world as subjects of justice; advance an encompassing understanding of principles of justice; move beyond market-based approaches to address injustice; and be sensitive to the contextual conditions in which justice is operationalised and implemented.
