Ethical adaptation to climate change : human virtues of the future / / edited by Allen Thompson and Jeremy Bendik-Keymer

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (355 p.)
• Disciplina: 179/.1
• Soggetto topico: Climatic changes; Global environmental change; Human beings - Effect of climate on; Restoration ecology; Environmental ethics; Environmental justice
• Soggetto non controllato: ENVIRONMENT/General
• Altri autori: ThompsonAllen <1969-> Bendik-KeymerJeremy <1970->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Adapting Humanity; I Adapting Restoration to Climate Change; 1 Nature Restoration as a Paradigm for the Human Relationship with Nature; 2 Environmental Virtues and the Aims of Restoration; 3 Global Warming and Virtues of Ecological Restoration; 4 History, Novelty, and Virtue in Ecological Restoration; II Integrating Ecology into the Virtue of Justice; 5 The Death of Restoration?; 6 Animal Flourishing and Capabilities in an Era of Global Change; 7 Environment as Meta-capability: Why a Dignified Human Life Requires a Stable Climate System ; 8 Justice, Ecological Integrity, and Climate ChangeIII Adjusting Character to a Changing Environment; 9 Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming ; 10 The Virtue of Responsibility for the Global Climate; 11 Rethinking Greed; 12 Are We the Scum of the Earth? Climate Change, Geoengineering, and Humanity's Challenge; IV Reorganizing Institutions to Enable Human Virtue; 13 The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Caused by Us; 14 Human Values and Institutional Responses to Climate Change; 15 Alienation and the Commons; 16 Thinking like a Planet; About the Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Predictions about global climate change have produced both stark scenarios of environmental catastrophe and purportedly pragmatic ideas about adaptation. This book takes a different perspective exploring the idea that the challenge of adapting to global climate change is fundamentally an ethical one.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ethical adaptation to climate change
• ISBN: 0-262-30078-8; 1-280-49914-1; 9786613594372; 0-262-30154-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825814603321
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