Climate justice : vulnerability and protection / Shue, Henry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shue, Henry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Economic aspects.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Government policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The fruit of twenty years of moral reflection on the emerging greatest challenge to humanity of the 21st century, these far-sighted and influential essays by a pioneering practical philosopher on the tangled questions of justice between nations and justice across generations confronting all attempts at international cooperation in controlling climate change sharply crystallize the central choices and offer constructive directions forward. Arguing that persistent attempts by U.S.negotiators to avoid the fundamental issues of justice at the heart of persistent international disagreement on the t

Contents:

Cover; Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Table of Contents; Citations; Shorthand Names of Chapters; Introduction; OUR FOUR ALTERNATIVES; 1: The unavoidability of justice; TWO TRACKS; DOUBLE OR NOTHING; POOR NATIONS WITH THE LEAST LEVERAGE; POOR NATIONS WITH THE MOST LEVERAGE; TWO KINDS OF COMPOUND INJUSTICE; VITAL INTERESTS; A MODEST PRACTICAL IMPLICATION FOR THE NEGOTIATING AGENDA ON GLOBAL WARMING; 2: Subsistence emissions and luxury emissions; INTRODUCTION; A FRAMEWORK FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE; Four kinds of questions

Allocating the costs of preventionAllocating the costs of coping; The background allocation of resources and fair bargaining; Allocating emissions: transition and goal; Two more kinds of questions; Two kinds of answers; COMPREHENSIVENESS VERSUS JUSTICE; 3: After you: may action by the rich be contingent upon action by the poor?; COOPERATIVE STRATEGY BETWEEN RICH AND POOR; Contributions by the poor; Contributions by the rich; FAIR TRANSITION; 'Aggressive population control'; The no-regrets budget; The mitigation budget; NATURALLY LIMITED SUPPLIES; PRE-AGREEMENT STANDARDS OF FAIRNESS

EXCESS AND ENCROACHMENTBY WHAT STANDARD UNFAIR?; THREE ALTERNATIVES; 4: Avoidable necessity: global warming, international fairness, and alternative energy; FOUR QUESTIONS OF FAIRNESS; IDEAL BEFORE NON-IDEAL?; GLOBAL WARMING: NOT YOUR USUAL PROBLEM; LESS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OR DIFFERENT ENERGY SOURCES?; CURRENT CARBON EMISSIONS; EQUAL MINIMUM OF THE ESSENTIALS; MAKING A ZERO-SUM CAPACITY ESSENTIAL TO LIFE; SHRINKING OUR ECONOMY?; 5: Equity in an international agreement on climate change; EQUITY UNDER A GLOBAL EMISSIONS CEILING; Fundamental fairness; Ultimate scarcity; Fair shares

Double impositionAN ALTERNATIVE TO INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT?; Conflicting conceptions; Dubious equity; CONCLUSION; 6: Environmental change and the varieties of justice; PREFERENCE AND FAIRNESS; FAIRNESS AND GLOBAL WARMING; COMING FULL CIRCLE; TRANSITION/EXTRICATION; 7: Eroding sovereignty: the advance of principle; LIMITING SOVEREIGNTY EXTERNALLY; LEAVING SOVEREIGNTY UNCHALLENGED; CONTESTING SOVEREIGNTY 'AT HOME'; TAKING DUE CARE; 8: Bequeathing hazards: security rights and property rights of future humans; LITTLE SURPRISES; SURPRISE ANNUITY; WHY DISCOUNTING IS NOT THE PRIMARY ISSUE

DISCOUNTING AND PROPERTY RIGHTS9: Global environment and international inequality; FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS AND ACCEPTABLE INEQUALITY; UNEQUAL BURDENS; Greater contribution to the problem; Greater ability to pay; GUARANTEED MINIMUM; OVERVIEW; 10: Climate; INFLICTING HARM; INCREASING INJUSTICE; 11: A legacy of danger: the Kyoto Protocol and future generations; INTRODUCTION; LEAST COST FIRST AND LATER GENERATIONS; INTERGENERATIONAL FAIRNESS AND INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY; THE DATE OF TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSITION; A LEGACY OF RISK OF HARM; THE KYOTO PROTOCOL; ALTERNATIVES

12: Responsibility to future generations and the technological transition

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-102280-2

0-19-877874-0

0-19-102279-9

OCLC:

880686133