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Print Price: $47.50

Format:
Paperback
448 pp.
7" x 10"

ISBN-13:
9780195399615

Publication date:
August 2010

Imprint: OUP US

Climate Ethics

Essential Readings

Edited by Stephen M. Gardiner, Simon Caney, Dale Jamieson and Henry Shue

This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve as a source book for general reference, and for university courses that include a focus on the human dimensions of climate change. It should be of broad interest to all those concerned with global justice, environmental science and policy, and the future of humanity.

Readership : Scholars and students of political philosophy and political theory, especially for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy, political science, law, environmental studies, geography, public policy, and other disciplines concerning global justice and human rights. It could also be useful asa textbook for lower-level undergraduate courses in the aforementioned disciplines.

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
A. Overview
1. Stephen M. Gardiner: 'Ethics and Global Climate Change'
B. The Nature of the Problem
2. Nicholas Stern: 'The Economics of Climate Change'
3. Dale Jamieson: 'Ethics, Public Policy and Global Warming'
4. Stephen M. Gardiner: 'A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics and the Problem of Moral Corruption'
C: Global Justice and Future Generations
5. Henry Shue: 'Global Environment and International Inequality'
6. Derek Parfit: 'Energy Policy and the Further Future: The Identity Problem'
7. 'Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility and Global Climate Change', Simon Caney.
8. Henry Shue: 'Deadly Delays, Saving Opportunities: Creating a More Dangerous World?'
9. Simon Caney: 'Climate Change, Human Rights and Moral Thresholds'
D: Policy Responses to Climate Change
10. Peter Singer: 'One Atmosphere'
11. Henry Shue: 'Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions'
12. Paul Baer, with Tom Athanasiou, Sivan Kartha and Eric Kemp-Benedict: 'Greenhouse Development Rights: A Framework for Climate Protection that is "More Fair" than Equal per Capita Emissions Rights'
13. Robert Goodin: 'Selling Environmental Indulgences'
14. Paul Baer: 'Adaptation: Who Pays Whom?'
15. Dale Jamieson: 'Adaptation, Mitigation, and Justice'
16. Stephen M. Gardiner: 'Is "Arming the Future" with Geoengineering Really the Lesser Evil? Some Doubts About the Ethics of Intentionally Manipulating the Climate System'
E. Individual Responsibility
17. Dale Jamieson: 'When Utilitarians Should be Virtue Theorists'
18. Walter Sinnott Armstrong: 'It's Not My Fault: Global Warming and Individual Moral Obligations'
References
Index

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Simon Caney is Professor in Political Theory and Tutorial Fellow in Politics at Magdalen College, Oxford University. Stephen Gardiner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Washington. Dale Jamieson is Director of Environmental Studies at New York University. Henry Shue is Senior Research Fellow at Centre for International Studies, Oxford University.

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Special Features

The book addresses a key global problem from a perspective that is widely acknowledged as vital but underexplored in both public and academic discussions.
Such a collection is a valuable resource at a time when concern about climate change is accelerating and the search for substantial political progress is reaching a critical point.
The editors are all pioneers in their areas and have each achieved international recognition.
The book contains a range of intellectual disciplines, including philosophy, political science, and economics.
It does not set out to advance a particular point of view, but rather to give a sense of the core debates by representing divergent considerations and voices.