Can, and should, liberalism make itself hospitable to a politics which does justice to climate change? To what extent are the values, methods, and assumptions of liberalism adaptable to the challenges raised? Liberal thinking -- broadly construed -- may dominate the Academy and the political landscape. Are the environmental priorities thrown into relief by climate change a threat to it, or an opportunity for it to show its worth? This book explore fresh arguments by leading scholars both sceptical of liberalism's capacity to meet these challenges, and sympathetic to the project of developing...
Can, and should, liberalism make itself hospitable to a politics which does justice to climate change? To what extent are the values, methods, and ass...
Climate change creates unprecedented problems of intergenerational justice. What do members of the current generation owe to future generations in virtue of the contribution they are making to climate change?
Providing important new insights within the theoretical framework of political liberalism, Climate Change and Future Justice presents arguments in three key areas:
Mitigation: the current generation ought to adopt a strong precautionary principle in formulating climate change policy in order to minimise the risks of serious harm from...
Climate change creates unprecedented problems of intergenerational justice. What do members of the current generation owe to future generations in ...
Since the seventeenth century liberal thinkers have been interested in the rights of individuals and their capacities to engage as free equals in the political activity of their community. However, as many in the republican tradition have noted, the maintenance of certain types of communities - predicated on broadly shared ethical expectations, modes of communication and patterns of activity - is a precondition of the meaningful exercise of citizenship rights.This volume presents essays from many of the major names in the field, exploring citizenship from a fresh perspective. After two...
Since the seventeenth century liberal thinkers have been interested in the rights of individuals and their capacities to engage as free equals in t...
