The ethics of global climate change / edited by Denis G. Arnold.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arnold, Denis Gordon, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental ethics.

Environmental responsibility.

Climatic changes--Moral and ethical aspects.

Climatic changes.

Global warming--Moral and ethical aspects.

Global warming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 340 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Global climate change is one of the most daunting ethical and political challenges confronting humanity in the twenty-first century. The intergenerational and transnational ethical issues raised by climate change have been the focus of a significant body of scholarship. In this new collection of essays, leading scholars engage and respond to first-generation scholarship and argue for new ways of thinking about our ethical obligations to present and future generations. Topics addressed in these essays include moral accountability for energy consumption and emissions, egalitarian and libertarian perspectives on mitigation, justice in relation to cap and trade schemes, the ethics of adaptation and the ethical dimensions of the impact of climate change on nature.

Contents:

Introduction: climate change and ethics / Denis G. Arnold

1. dtEnergy, ethics and the transformation of nature / Dale Jamieson

2. Is no one responsible for global environmental tragedy?: climate change as challenge in our ethical concepts / Stephen Gardiner

3. Greenhouse gas emission and the domination of posterity / John Nolt

4. Climate change, energy rights and equality / Simon Caney

5. Common atmospheric ownership and equal emissions entitlements / Darrel Moellendorf

6. A Lockean defense of grandfathering emission rights / Luc Bovens

7. Parenting the planet / Sarah Krakoff

8. Living ethically in a greenhouse / Robert H. Socolow and Mary R. English

9. Beyond business as usual: alternative wedges to avoid catastrophic climate change and create sustainable societies / Philip Cafaro

10. Addressing competitiveness in US climate policy / Richard D. Morgenstern

11. Reconciling justice and efficiency: integrating environmental justice into domestic cap-and-trade programs for controlling greenhouse gases / Alice Kaswan

12. Ethical dimensions of adapting to climate change imposed risks / W. Neil Adger and Sophie Nicholson-Cole

13. Does nature matter?: the place of the nonhuman in the ethics of climate change / Clare Palmer

14. Human rights, climate change, and the trillionth ton / Henry Shue.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-06352-9

1-107-21994-9

1-283-11886-6

9786613118868

1-139-07585-3

1-139-07811-9

1-139-07011-8

1-139-08041-5

0-511-73229-5

1-139-08268-X

OCLC:

729166642