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Climate change ethics : navigating the perfect moral storm /
Climate change is now the biggest challenge faced by humanity worldwide and ethics is the crucial missing component in the debate about what to do about this enormous threat. This book examines why thirty-five years of discussion of human-induced warming has failed to acknowledge fundamental ethical...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Climate Change Ethics; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I Introduction: The Climate Change Debate; 1 Introduction: Navigating the Perfect Moral Storm in Light of a Thirty-Five-Year Debate; 2 Thirty-Five-Year Climate Change Policy Debate; Part II Priority Climate Change Ethical Issues; 3 Ethical Problems with Cost Arguments; 4 Ethics and Scientific Uncertainty Arguments about Climate Change; 5 Atmospheric Targets; 6 Allocating National Emissions Targets; 7 Ethical Responsibility of Nations for Climate Change Damages and Adaptation Costs.
- 8 Obligations of Sub-national Governments, Organizations, Businesses, and Individuals9 Independent Responsibility to Act; Part III 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" of Climate Change; Notes; References; Index.