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World Ethics and Climate Change [electronic resource] : From International to Global Justice
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, Paul G.
- Series:
- Edinburgh Studies in World Ethics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Climatic changes--Political aspects.
- Environmental responsibility.
- Local Subjects:
- Climatic changes--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Climatic changes--Political aspects.
- Environmental responsibility.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- More than two decades of international negotiations have failed to stem emissions of greenhouse gases that are causing global warming and climate change. This book identifies a way to escape this ongoing tragedy of the atmospheric commons. It takes a fresh approach to the ethics and practice of international environmental justice and proposes fundamental adjustments to the climate change regime, in the process drawing support from cosmopolitan ethics and global conceptions of justice. The author argues for 'cosmopolitan diplomacy', which sees people, rather than states alone, as the causes of
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I - THE CHALLENGE; PART II - INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE; PART III - GLOBAL JUSTICE; REFERENCES; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-31033-3
- 9786613310330
- 0-7486-4214-5
- OCLC:
- 638860117
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