Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories / edited by Dónal P. O’Mathúna, Vilius Dranseika, Bert Gordijn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O’Mathúna, Dónal P., Editor.

Contributor:

O’Mathúna, Dónal P., Editor.

Dranseika, Vilius., Editor.

Gordijn, Bert., Editor.

Series:

Advancing Global Bioethics, 2212-652X ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Natural disasters.

International law.

Natural Hazards.

Public International Law .

Local Subjects:

Ethics.

Natural Hazards.

Public International Law .

Physical Description:

1 online resource (IX, 244 p. 6 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2018.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This Open Access Book is the first to examine disasters from a multidisciplinary perspective. Justification of actions in the face of disasters requires recourse both to conceptual analysis and ethical traditions. Part 1 of the book contains chapters on how disasters are conceptualized in different academic disciplines relevant to disasters. Part 2 has chapters on how ethical issues that arise in relation to disasters can be addressed from a number of fundamental normative approaches in moral and political philosophy. This book sets the stage for more focused normative debates given that no one book can be completely comprehensive. Providing analysis of core concepts, and with real-world relevance, this book should be of interest to disaster scholars and researchers, those working in ethics and political philosophy, as well as policy makers, humanitarian actors and intergovernmental organizations.

Contents:

1. Conceptualizing and assessing disasters: An introduction

2. Conceptualizations of disasters in philosophy

3. Christian theology and disasters: Where is God in all this?

4. Disasters and responsibility. Normative issues for law following disasters

5. The ethical content of the economic analysis of disasters: Price gouging and post-disaster recovery

6. Political Science perspectives

7. You can’t go home again – on the conceptualisation of disasters in ancient Greek tragedy

8. Conceptualizing Disasters from a Gender Perspective

10. Disaster consequentialism

11. Disasters, vulnerability and human rights

12. Capabilities, ethics and disasters

14. Virtue ethics and disasters

15. Kantian virtue ethics approaches

16. The loss of deontology on the road to apathy: Examples of homelessness and IVF now, with disaster to follow

Afterword

Bibliography of selected titles

Index: Subject and/or Name. .

ISBN:

3-319-92722-1

OCLC:

1231609813