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Climate change and social justice / edited by Jeremy Moss.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- MUP social justice series.
- MUP Social Justice Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Climatic changes.
- Environmental ethics.
- Environmental justice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carlton, Victoria, Australia : Melbourne University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The impacts of climate change can already be felt in society and on the Earth itself. As new evidence of the environmental impact of climate change is constantly emerging, we are forced to confront the significance of our political decisions about who will pay the price of responding to a changing climate. In the rush to avoid or reduce the repercussions of climate change, we need to ensure that the burden is evenly distributed or run the risk of creating injustice. Climate Change and Social Justice demonstrates that the problem of how to distribute the costs of climate change is fundamentally a problem of justice. If we ignore the concerns addressed this book, the additional burdens of climate change will fall on the poor and vulnerable. Jeremy Moss brings together today's key thinkers in climate research, including Peter Singer, Ross Garnaut and David Karoly, to respond to these important issues.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Climate Change and Social Justice
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I Science, Fairness and Responsibility
- 1 The Blame Game
- 2 Climate Change as an Ethical Issue
- 3 Climate Justice
- 4 Climate Change and Intergenerational Equity
- 5 Some Distributional Issues in Greenhouse Gas Policy Design
- 6 Just Carbon Trading?
- Part II Climate Change and Vulnerable Groups
- 7 Justice and Adaptation to Climate Change
- 8 Primary Health Care Responses to Climate Change
- 9 Climate Refugees and New Understandings of Security
- Part III Policy Implications
- 10 Climate Justice
- 11 More than Just Money
- 12 Equitable Climate Policy in a Dangerous World
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780522859973
- 0522859976
- OCLC:
- 1097131874
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