Fair Weather: Equity Concerns in Climate Change

ISBN-13: 9781844079902 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 228 str.

Ferenc L. Toth; Ferenc L. Tth

Opis

A cross-disciplinary assessment of fairness and equity issues in the context of global climate change, this volume is written by leading scientists and examines the concerns from a variety of social science disciplines.

Spis treści

Foreword * Fairness Concerns in Climate Change * Equity Issues and Integrated Assessment * Climate Change and Multiple Views of Fairness * Empirical and Ethical Arguments in Climate Change Impact Valuation and Aggregation * Applying Fairness Criteria to the Allocation of Climate Protection Burdens: An Economic Perspective * The Appropriateness of Economic Approaches to the Analysis of Burden-Sharing * Biases in Allocating Obligations for Climate Protection: Implications from Social Judgement Research in Psychology * Fairness and Local Environmental Concerns in Climate Policy * Justice, Equity ad Efficiency in Climate Change: A Developing Country Perspective * Justice in the Greenhouse: Perspectives from International Law * Equity In International Law * The Regulation of Greenhouse Gases: Does Fairness Matter? * Addresses of Lead Contributors * Index

O autorze

Ferenc L Toth is project leader at the Department of Global Change and Social Systems at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact research (PIK), Germany.