Climate ethics environmental justice and climate change

✍ Scribed by Katherine Robinson; Jörg Tremmel

Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 256
Series: International library of human geography
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Part I Climate Change: Physical Causes and Effects
1 Introduction: Why an Imminent Threat Stays on the Back Burner
2 The Science of Climate Change
3 The Culprits of Climate Change
4 The Human Costs of Climate Change
5 Addressing Climate Change: Options and Obstacles
Part II Climate Ethics
6 Distribution of What?
7 Intergenerational Justice
8 Pure Distributive Justice
9 International Justice
10 Historical Justice
11 From the Currency of Greenhouse Gases to Questions of Monetary Distribution
12 What is Just with Regard to Climate Change?
13 Rights in the Context of Climate Change: A Contested Terrain
14 The 'Present People's Right to a Stable Climate' Approach
15 The 'Future People's Right to a Stable Climate' Approach
16 Can Future People be Said to Have Legal Rights?
17 Summary: Is 'Rights Talk' a Good Idea?
18 Outlook
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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