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Autore |
Davidson Marc David |
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Arguing about climate change [[electronic resource] ] : judging the handling of climate risk to future generations by comparison to the general standards of conduct in the case of risk to contemporaries / / Marc David Davidson |
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Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-45384-X |
9786612453847 |
90-485-0834-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (148 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Environmental ethics |
Climatic changes - Moral and ethical aspects |
Environmental responsibility |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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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. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; General introduction; Chapter 1: An inconvenient truth; Chapter 2: Climate damage as wrongful harm to future generations; Chapter 3: Regulation of climate change and the reasonable man standard; Chapter 4: A social discount rate for climate damage to future generations based on regulatory law; Chapter 5: How reasonable man discounts climate damage; Chapter 6: Parallels in reactionary argumentation in the US congressional debates on the abolition of slavery and the Kyoto Protocol; Summary; Nederlandse samenvatting; Acknowledgements; Curriculum vitae |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Intergenerational justice requires that climate risks to future generations be handled with the same reasonable care deemed |
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