Climate Ethics

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-539962-2
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 886 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of political philosophy and political theory, especially for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy, political science, law, environmental studies, geography, public policy, and other disciplines concerning global justice and human rights. It could also be useful asa textbook for lower-level undergraduate courses in the aforementioned disciplines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gardiner

Gardiner, Stephen M.

Caney, Simon

Jamieson, Dale

Shue, Henry

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltsoziologie, Umweltpsychologie, Umweltethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Umweltethik, Umweltphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface

A. Overview
1: Stephen M. Gardiner: 'Ethics and Global Climate Change'

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'

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'

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'

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'

References

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Über Autor(innen)

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