Climate change ethics : navigating the perfect moral storm / / Donald A. Brown
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| Autore: |
Brown Donald A. <1944-, >
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| Titolo: |
Climate change ethics : navigating the perfect moral storm / / Donald A. Brown
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 179/.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Climatic changes - Moral and ethical aspects |
| Global warming - Moral and ethical aspects | |
| Environmental ethics | |
| Climatic changes - Government policy | |
| Global warming - Government policy | |
| Environmental policy | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Part 1. Introduction -- Introduction: Navigating the Perfect Moral Storm in Light of a Thirty-Five Year Debate -- Thirty-Five Year Climate Change Policy Debate -- Part 2. Priority Ethical Issues -- Ethical Problems with Cost Arguments -- Ethics and Scientific Uncertainty Arguments -- Atmospheric Targets -- Allocating National Emissions Targets -- Climate Change Damages and Adaptation Costs -- Obligations of Sub-national Governments, Organizations, Businesses, and Individuals -- Independent Responsibility to Act -- Part 3. The Crucial Role of Ethics in Climate Change Policy Making -- Why Has Ethics Failed to Achieve Traction? -- Conclusion: Navigating the Perfect Moral Storm. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 concerns, and subjects climate change's most important policy questions to ethical analysis.This book examines why ethical principles have failed to gain traction in policy formation and recommends specific strategies to ensure that climate change policies are consistent with ethical prin |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Climate change ethics |
| ISBN: | 0-203-10323-8 |
| 1-299-27912-0 | |
| 1-136-24365-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910465629703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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