Climate Change and Intergenerational Justice

ISBN-13: 9781138222977 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 144 str.

Tracey Skillington

Opis

Intergenerational solidarity is seriously tested by the escalating energy demands of the present. This book explores new ways of thinking sociologically about the question of natural resource justice between generations in light of increasing scarcity worldwide.

Spis treści

Introduction: Thinking Differently About the Future  1. Relations Between Generations as Relations of Domination  2. Changing the Evaluative Discourse on Climate Change – the Campaign for Future Justice  3. Are Future Peoples the Bearers of Present Rights?  4. Balancing Generational Sovereignty With a Future Ethics  5. Publicly Embedded Constitutions: Legislating for Present and Future Generations  6. A Deeper Framework of Intergenerational Justice

O autorze

Tracey Skillington is Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Sociology & Philosophy, University College Cork. She is the author of Climate Justice & Human Rights (2017) and Guest Editor of a special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory , titled ‘Perspectives on Climate Change’ (8[3], 2015).