Climate ethics: essential readings

This collection gathers a set of central 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. 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: 978-0-19-539962-2
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 448
• Fecha Publicación: 26/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés