Climate Ethics (eBook, PDF)

Essential Readings
Redaktion: Gardiner, Stephen; Shue, Henry; Jamieson, Dale; Caney, Simon

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve as a source book for general reference, and for university courses that include a focus on the human dimensions of climate change. It should be of broad interest to all those concerned with global justice, environmental science and policy, and the future of humanity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199750580
• Artikelnr.: 38144628

Autorenporträt

Simon Caney is Professor in Political Theory and Tutorial Fellow in Politics, Magdalen College, Oxford. Stephen Gardiner is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Washington. Dale Jamieson is Director of Environmental Studies, NYU. Henry Shue is Senior Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

* Notes on Contributors
* Acknowledgements
* Preface
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* A. Overview
* 1: Stephen M. Gardiner: 'Ethics and Global Climate Change'
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* B. The Nature of the Problem
* 2: Nicholas Stern: 'The Economics of Climate Change'
* 3: Dale Jamieson: 'Ethics, Public Policy and Global Warming'
* 4: Stephen M. Gardiner: 'A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change,
Intergenerational Ethics and the Problem of Moral Corruption'
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* C: Global Justice and Future Generations
* 5: Henry Shue: 'Global Environment and International Inequality'
* 6: Derek Parfit: 'Energy Policy and the Further Future: The Identity
Problem'
* 7: 'Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility and Global Climate Change',
Simon Caney.
* 8: Henry Shue: 'Deadly Delays, Saving Opportunities: Creating a More
Dangerous World?'
* 9: Simon Caney: 'Climate Change, Human Rights and Moral Thresholds'
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* D: Policy Responses to Climate Change
* 10: Peter Singer: 'One Atmosphere'
* 11: Henry Shue: 'Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions'
* 12: Paul Baer, with Tom Athanasiou, Sivan Kartha and Eric
Kemp-Benedict: 'Greenhouse Development Rights: A Framework for
Climate Protection that is "More Fair" than Equal per Capita
Emissions Rights'
* 13: Robert Goodin: 'Selling Environmental Indulgences'
* 14: Paul Baer: 'Adaptation: Who Pays Whom?'
* 15: Dale Jamieson: 'Adaptation, Mitigation, and Justice'
* 16: Stephen M. Gardiner: 'Is "Arming the Future" with Geoengineering
Really the Lesser Evil? Some Doubts About the Ethics of Intentionally
Manipulating the Climate System'
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* E. Individual Responsibility
* 17: Dale Jamieson: 'When Utilitarians Should be Virtue Theorists'
* 18: Walter Sinnott Armstrong: 'It's Not My Fault: Global Warming and
Individual Moral Obligations'
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* References
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* Index