Climate Justice and Historical Emissions

Herausgeber: Meyer, Lukas H.; Sanklecha, Pranay

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This volume investigates who can be considered responsible for historical emissions and their consequences, and how and why this should matter for the design of a just global climate policy. The authors discuss the underlying philosophical issues of responsibility for historical emissions, the unjust enrichment of the earlier developed nations, as well as questions of transitional justice. By bringing together a plurality of perspectives, both in terms of the theoretical understanding of the issues and the political perspectives on the problem, the book also presents the remaining disagreements and controversies in the debate. Providing a systematic introduction to the debate on historical emissions and climate change, this book provides an unbiased and authoritative guide for advanced students, researchers and policymakers in climate change justice and governance, and more widely, for anyone interested in the broader issues of global justice"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 710g
• ISBN-13: 9781107069534
• ISBN-10: 110706953X
• Artikelnr.: 46482036

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Introduction. On the significance of historical
emissions for climate ethics Lukas Meyer and Pranay Sanklecha; 1. Climate
ethics, affirmative action and unjust enrichment David Heyd; 2. Historical
responsibility and climate change Janna Thompson; 3. Historical emissions:
does ignorance matter? Daniel Butt; 4. How legal systems deal with issues
of responsibility for past harmful behavior Daniel A. Farber; 5. Asking
beneficiaries to pay for past pollution Anja Karnein; 6. Benefiting from
unjust acts and benefiting from injustice: historical emissions and the
beneficiary pays principle Brian Berkey; 7. A luck-based moral defense of
grandfathering Rudolf Schuessler; 8. In defense of emissions egalitarianism
Konrad Ott and Christian Baatz; 9. In the name of political possibility: a
new proposal for thinking about the role and relevance of historical
greenhouse gas emissions Sarah Kenehan; 10. Right to development and
historical emissions: a perspective from the particularly vulnerable
countries (PVCs) Mizan R. Khan; Index.