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Ethical adaptation to climate change : human virtues of the future / edited by Allen Thompson and Jeremy Bendik-Keymer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes.
- Global environmental change.
- Human beings--Effect of climate on.
- Human beings.
- Restoration ecology.
- Environmental ethics.
- Environmental justice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (355 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Predictions about global climate change have produced both stark scenarios of environmental catastrophe and purportedly pragmatic ideas about adaptation. This book takes a different perspective exploring the idea that the challenge of adapting to global climate change is fundamentally an ethical one.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Adapting Humanity; I Adapting Restoration to Climate Change; 1 Nature Restoration as a Paradigm for the Human Relationship with Nature; 2 Environmental Virtues and the Aims of Restoration; 3 Global Warming and Virtues of Ecological Restoration; 4 History, Novelty, and Virtue in Ecological Restoration; II Integrating Ecology into the Virtue of Justice; 5 The Death of Restoration?; 6 Animal Flourishing and Capabilities in an Era of Global Change; 7 Environment as Meta-capability: Why a Dignified Human Life Requires a Stable Climate System
- 8 Justice, Ecological Integrity, and Climate ChangeIII Adjusting Character to a Changing Environment; 9 Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming ; 10 The Virtue of Responsibility for the Global Climate; 11 Rethinking Greed; 12 Are We the Scum of the Earth? Climate Change, Geoengineering, and Humanity's Challenge; IV Reorganizing Institutions to Enable Human Virtue; 13 The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Caused by Us; 14 Human Values and Institutional Responses to Climate Change; 15 Alienation and the Commons; 16 Thinking like a Planet; About the Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-30078-8
- 1-280-49914-1
- 9786613594372
- 0-262-30154-7
- OCLC:
- 780445283
- Publisher Number:
- 9786613594372
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