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Ethics and global environmental policy : cosmopolitan conceptions of climate change / edited by Paul G. Harris.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental policy--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Environmental policy.
- Environmental ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham [England] : Edward Elgar Pub., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of provocative essays re-evaluates the world's failed policy responses to climate change, in the process demonstrating how cosmopolitan ethics can inform global environmental governance. A cosmopolitan worldview points to climate-related policies that are less 'international' and more 'global'. From a cosmopolitan perspective, national borders should not delineate obligations and responsibilities associated with climate change. Human beings, rather than the narrow interests of nation-states, ought to be at the centre of moral calculations and policy responses to climate change.
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction: cosmopolitanism and climate change policy; 2. Climate justice as globalized responsibility: mitigation, adaptation and avoiding harm toothers; 3. Climate change and the cosmopolitan responsibility of individuals: policy vanguards; 4. Individual responsibility and voluntary action on climate change: activating agency; 5. Cosmopolitan solutions 'from below': climate change, international law and the capitalist challenge; 6. Sharing the burdens of climate change: environmental justice and qualified cosmopolitanism
- 7. Cosmopolitanism and hegemony: the United States and climate8. Overcoming the planetary prisoners' dilemma: cosmopolitan ethos and pluralist cooperation; 9. Cosmopolitan diplomacy and the climate change regime: moving beyond international doctrine; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-21586-1
- 9786613215864
- 0-85793-161-X
- OCLC:
- 747409529
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