Climate Change Ethics: Navigating the Perfect Moral Storm

ISBN-13: 9780415625715 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 288 str.

Donald A. Brown

Opis

Climate change is now the biggest challenge faced by humanity worldwide and ethics is the missing component to the debate. This book examines why 35 years of discussion of human-induced warming has failed to acknowledge fundamental ethical concerns, and subjects climate change's most important policy questions to ethical analysis.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction  1. Introduction: Navigating The Perfect Moral Storm in Light of a Thirty-Five Year Debate  2. Thirty-Five Year Climate Change Policy Debate  Part 2: Priority Ethical Issues  3. Ethical Problems with Cost Arguments  4. Ethics and Scientific Uncertainty Arguments  5. Atmospheric Targets 6. Allocating National Emissions Targets  7. Climate Change Damages and Adaptation Costs  8. Obligations of Sub-national Governments, Organizations, Businesses, and Individuals  9. Independent Responsibility to Act  Part 3: The Crucial Role of Ethics in Climate Change Policy Making  10. Why Has Ethics Failed to Achieve Traction?  11. Conclusion – Navigating The Perfect Moral Storm

O autorze

Donald A. Brown is Scholar in Residence on Sustainability Ethics and Law at Widener University School of Law, USA.