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Arguing about climate change judging the handling of climate risk to future generations by comparison to the general standards of conduct in the case of risk to contemporaries /
Intergenerational justice requires that climate risks to future generations be handled with the same reasonable care deemed acceptable by society in the case of risks to contemporaries. Such general standards of conduct are laid down in tort law, for example. Consequently, the validity of arguments...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
c2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Intergenerational justice requires that climate risks to future generations be handled with the same reasonable care deemed acceptable by society in the case of risks to contemporaries. Such general standards of conduct are laid down in tort law, for example. Consequently, the validity of arguments for or against more stringent climate policy can be judged by comparison to the general standards of conduct applying in the case of risk to contemporaries. That this consistency test is able to disqualify certain arguments in the climate debate is illustrated by a further investigation of the debat. |
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| Notas: | The work was "financed by the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in the context of the programme Ethics, Research & Public Policy, and the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM)." Originally presented as the author's Ph.D Thesis from the University of Amsterdam. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (148 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9786612453847 6612453842 9048508347 9789048508341 |