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Climate justice : vulnerability and protection /

The fruit of twenty years of moral reflection on the emerging greatest challenge to humanity of the 21st century, these far-sighted and influential essays by a pioneering practical philosopher on the tangled questions of justice between nations and justice across generations confronting all attempts...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shue, Henry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Table of Contents; Citations; Shorthand Names of Chapters; Introduction; OUR FOUR ALTERNATIVES; 1: The unavoidability of justice; TWO TRACKS; DOUBLE OR NOTHING; POOR NATIONS WITH THE LEAST LEVERAGE; POOR NATIONS WITH THE MOST LEVERAGE; TWO KINDS OF COMPOUND INJUSTICE; VITAL INTERESTS; A MODEST PRACTICAL IMPLICATION FOR THE NEGOTIATING AGENDA ON GLOBAL WARMING; 2: Subsistence emissions and luxury emissions; INTRODUCTION; A FRAMEWORK FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE; Four kinds of questions.
  • Allocating the costs of preventionAllocating the costs of coping; The background allocation of resources and fair bargaining; Allocating emissions: transition and goal; Two more kinds of questions; Two kinds of answers; COMPREHENSIVENESS VERSUS JUSTICE; 3: After you: may action by the rich be contingent upon action by the poor?; COOPERATIVE STRATEGY BETWEEN RICH AND POOR; Contributions by the poor; Contributions by the rich; FAIR TRANSITION; 'Aggressive population control'; The no-regrets budget; The mitigation budget; NATURALLY LIMITED SUPPLIES; PRE-AGREEMENT STANDARDS OF FAIRNESS.
  • EXCESS AND ENCROACHMENTBY WHAT STANDARD UNFAIR?; THREE ALTERNATIVES; 4: Avoidable necessity: global warming, international fairness, and alternative energy; FOUR QUESTIONS OF FAIRNESS; IDEAL BEFORE NON-IDEAL?; GLOBAL WARMING: NOT YOUR USUAL PROBLEM; LESS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OR DIFFERENT ENERGY SOURCES?; CURRENT CARBON EMISSIONS; EQUAL MINIMUM OF THE ESSENTIALS; MAKING A ZERO-SUM CAPACITY ESSENTIAL TO LIFE; SHRINKING OUR ECONOMY?; 5: Equity in an international agreement on climate change; EQUITY UNDER A GLOBAL EMISSIONS CEILING; Fundamental fairness; Ultimate scarcity; Fair shares.
  • Double impositionAN ALTERNATIVE TO INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT?; Conflicting conceptions; Dubious equity; CONCLUSION; 6: Environmental change and the varieties of justice; PREFERENCE AND FAIRNESS; FAIRNESS AND GLOBAL WARMING; COMING FULL CIRCLE; TRANSITION/EXTRICATION; 7: Eroding sovereignty: the advance of principle; LIMITING SOVEREIGNTY EXTERNALLY; LEAVING SOVEREIGNTY UNCHALLENGED; CONTESTING SOVEREIGNTY 'AT HOME'; TAKING DUE CARE; 8: Bequeathing hazards: security rights and property rights of future humans; LITTLE SURPRISES; SURPRISE ANNUITY; WHY DISCOUNTING IS NOT THE PRIMARY ISSUE.
  • DISCOUNTING AND PROPERTY RIGHTS9: Global environment and international inequality; FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS AND ACCEPTABLE INEQUALITY; UNEQUAL BURDENS; Greater contribution to the problem; Greater ability to pay; GUARANTEED MINIMUM; OVERVIEW; 10: Climate; INFLICTING HARM; INCREASING INJUSTICE; 11: A legacy of danger: the Kyoto Protocol and future generations; INTRODUCTION; LEAST COST FIRST AND LATER GENERATIONS; INTERGENERATIONAL FAIRNESS AND INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY; THE DATE OF TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSITION; A LEGACY OF RISK OF HARM; THE KYOTO PROTOCOL; ALTERNATIVES.