Laura García-Portela

Rectifying Climate Injustice

Reparations for Loss and Damage

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an account of how rectificatory justice for climate change loss and damage is possible and provides an extensive response to its challenges.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781032508344
• ISBN-10: 1032508345
• Artikelnr.: 70975551

Autorenporträt

Laura García-Portela is an assistant professor of philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Before that, she held postdoctoral positions at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, Germany) and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). She has also held visiting, research, and teaching positions at University of Valencia (Spain), Keele University (UK), and University of Washington (US). She graduated in summer 2021 from the Department of Philosophy and the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Climate Change, University of Graz. Her dissertation was awarded the Luis Díez del Corral Prize from the Center of Political and Constitutional Studies in Spain (research centered attached to the Spanish Ministry of Presidency) and the Roland Atefie Preis from the Austrian Academy of Science. Her work lies at the intersection between political philosophy, philosophy of climate science, and philosophy of climate law and is published in numerous international journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. An international mechanism for loss and damage
1.1 A brief history of loss and damage
1.2 Contributing to an International Mechanism for Loss and Damage
1.3 The contested role of compensation in climate negotiations
2. A terminological note
3. Philosophical Methodology
3.1 General methodology: reflective equilibrium
3.2 Climate justice specific methodology
5. Summary of chapters
Chapter One: A minimal capabilities-based approach
1. Life disruptions as harm and the minimal understanding of loss and
damage
2. A minimal capabilities-based account of loss and damage.
3. Answering some challenges to an ex-post categorization of L&D
4. Conceptual clarifications and types of reparation for loss and damage
4.1 The notions of 'loss' and 'damage' in loss and damage
5. Conclusions
Chapter Two: In search for a justified rectificatory justice principle
Polluter Pays Principle
2. The Beneficiary Pays Principle and Some Intuitive Reactions to the
Objections
3. The Causation Objection and the Beneficiary Pays Principle
4. The Excusable Ignorance Objection and Fairness Considerations
4.1 A fresh look at the Excusable Ignorance Objection
4.2 Fairness Considerations, the Beneficiary Pays Principle, and Replies to
Some Objections.
5. Conclusions
Chapter Three: Reasons awaiting satisfaction
1. The continuity thesis and the Continuity Account
2. The Continuity Account and the objections against the Polluter Pays
Principle
3. Alternative accounts
3.1 Strict liability
3.2 Counterfactual liability
3.3 Outcome responsibility
4. Conclusions
Chapter Four: Climate Harm and Attribution Science
1. Attribution methods: the probabilistic and the storyline approach
2. The reaction and criticism of the PEA community towards the storyline
approach
3. The storyline approach and the criticism of overstatement
4. On how the probabilistic approach is affected by similar objections
5. Conclusions
Chapter Five: Towards a Rectificatory Policy Mechanism for Loss and Damage
1. Towards an adequacy-for-purpose view for attribution methods
2. An adequacy-for-purpose view for rectifying climate injustice
3. Distributing liability and achieving rectificatory justice
. The Political Feasibility Objection
.1 Introducing and exploring the feasibility concern
.2 Motivational and psychological aspects of the Political Feasibility
Objection
5. Conclusions
Final Conclusions
Index