Darrel Moellendorf

The Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the threat that climate change poses to the projects of poverty eradication, sustainable development, and biodiversity preservation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9781107017306
• ISBN-10: 1107017300
• Artikelnr.: 40580443

Autorenporträt

Darrel Moellendorf is Professor of International Political Theory at Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Justice (2002) and Global Inequality Matters (2009). He co-edited Jurisprudence (2004, with Christopher J. Roederer), Current Debates in Global Justice (2005, with Gillian Brock), Global Justice: Seminal Essays (2008, with Thomas Pogge) and The Handbook of Global Ethics (2014, with Heather Widdows). He has been a Member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, a recipient of DAAD and NEH Fellowships, and a Senior Fellow at Justitia Amplificata at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Danger, poverty, and human dignity
2. The value of biodiversity
3. Risks, uncertainties, and precaution
4. Discounting and the future and the morality in climate change economics
5. The right to sustainable development
6. Responsibility and climate change policy
7. Urgency and policy
Afterword. Frankenstorms
Appendix 1. The anti-poverty principle and the non-identity problem
Appendix 2. Climate change and the human rights of future persons: assessing four philosophical challenges.