Donald Brown

Climate Change Ethics

Navigating the Perfect Moral Storm

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an important new perspective on the debate over climate change ethics in light of a thirty-five year history of national and international debates about climate change policies. Donald A. Brown has written the first book of its kind that makes practical recommendations on how to increase consideration of ethical matters into policy, giving readers a new way of thinking about climate ethics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780415625715
• ISBN-10: 0415625718
• Artikelnr.: 35710251

Autorenporträt

Donald A. Brown is Scholar in Residence on Sustainability Ethics and Law at Widener University School of Law, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction 1. Introduction: Navigating The Perfect Moral Storm in
Light of a Thirty-Five Year Debate 2. Thirty-Five Year Climate Change
Policy Debate Part 2: Priority Ethical Issues 3. Ethical Problems with Cost
Arguments 4. Ethics and Scientific Uncertainty Arguments 5. Atmospheric
Targets 6. Allocating National Emissions Targets 7. Climate Change Damages
and Adaptation Costs 8. Obligations of Sub-national Governments,
Organizations, Businesses, and Individuals 9. Independent Responsibility to
Act Part 3: The Crucial Role of Ethics in Climate Change Policy Making 10.
Why Has Ethics Failed to Achieve Traction? 11. Conclusion - Navigating The
Perfect Moral Storm