Climate ethics: essential readings

This collection gathers a set of central papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. INDICE: 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: PaulBaer: '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; ; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-539961-5
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 448
• Fecha Publicación: 19/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés