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Handbook of intergenerational justice / edited by Joerg Chet Tremmel.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Justice.
- Intergenerational relations.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (366 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This Handbook provides a detailed overview of various issues related to intergenerational justice. Comprising articles written by a distinguished group of scholars from the international scientific community, the Handbook is divided into two main thematic sections - foundations and definitions of intergenerational justice and institutionalization of intergenerational justice.
- Contents:
- Responsibility for future generations : scope and limits / Dieter Birnbacher
- Principles of generational justice / Christoph Lumer
- The impossibility of a theory of intergenerational justice / Wilfred Beckerman
- John Rawls on rights of future generations / Claus Dierksmeier
- Justice between generations / Michael Wallack
- Rule change and intergenerational justice / Axel Gosseries, Mathias Hungerbuhler
- The economic sustainability indicator / Peer Ederer, Philipp Schuller and Stephan Willms
- Protecting future generations : intergenerational buck-passing, theoretical ineptitude and a brief for a global core precautionary principle / Stephen M. Gardiner
- Institutional determinants of public debt : a political economy perspective / Bernd Sussmuth and Robert K. von Weizsacker
- Establishing intergenerational justice in national constitutions / Joerg Chet Tremmel
- A constitutional law for future generations : the 'other' form of the social contract : the generation contract / Peter Haberle
- The French Constitutional Charter for the environment : an effective instrument? / Dominique Bourg
- Commission for Future Generations in the Knesset : lessons learnt / Shlomo Shoham and Nira Lamay
- Institutional protection of succeeding generations : Ombudsman for Future Generations in Hungary / Benedek Javor
- The role of CPB in Dutch economic policy / Rocus M. van Opstal and Jacqueline Timmerhuis
- Intergenerational justice / Emmanuel Agius.
- Notes:
- "This publication was partly financed by a printing subsidy from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-22008-3
- 9786613220080
- 1-84720-185-7
- OCLC:
- 475992527
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