Ethics of Global Climate Change

Informationen zum Autor Denis G. Arnold is the Jule and Marguerite Surtman Distinguished Professor in Business Ethics at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of The Ethics of Global Business (2010) and the editor of Ethics and the Business of Biomedicine (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Klappentext Argues for new ways of conceptualising our ethical obligations regarding global climate change and responds to first-generation literature. Zusammenfassung Global climate change is one of the most daunting ethical and political challenges confronting humanity in the twenty-first century. In this book! authors argue for new ways of conceptualising our ethical obligations in order to address a problem of this scope and difficulty. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: climate change and ethics Denis G. Arnold; 1. Energy, ethics and the transformation of nature Dale Jamieson; 2. Is no one responsible for global environmental tragedy? Climate change as challenge in our ethical concepts Stephen Gardiner; 3. Greenhouse gas emission and the domination of posterity John Nolt; 4. Climate change, energy rights and equality Simon Caney; 5. Common atmospheric ownership and equal emissions entitlements Darrel Moellendorf; 6. A Lockean defense of grandfathering emission rights Luc Bovens; 7. Parenting the planet Sarah Krakoff; 8. Living ethically in a greenhouse Robert H. Socolow and Mary R. English; 9. Beyond business as usual: alternative wedges to avoid catastrophic climate change and create sustainable societies Philip Cafaro; 10. Addressing competitiveness in US climate policy Richard D. Morgenstern; 11. Reconciling justice and efficiency: integrating environmental justice into domestic cap-and-trade programs for controlling greenhouse gases Alice Kaswan; 12. Ethical dimensions of adapting to climate change imposed risks W. Neil Adger and Sophie Nicholson-Cole; 13. Does nature matter? The place of the nonhuman in the ethics of climate change Clare Palmer; 14. Human rights, climate change, and the trillionth ton Henry Shue....

Product details

• Authors: Denis Arnold, Denis G. Arnold, Denis G. (University of North Carolina Arnold, Arnold Denis
• Assisted by: Denis G. Arnold (Editor), Arnold Denis G. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2011
• EAN: 9781107000698
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00069-8
• No. of pages: 354
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Climate Change, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Environmentalist thought and ideology, PHILOSOPHY / Environmental