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Darrel Moellendorf - The Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change, Inbunden

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The Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change

Values, Poverty, and Policy

Av Darrel Moellendorf

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This book examines the threat that climate change poses to projects of poverty eradication, sustainable development, and biodiversity preservation. It discusses the values that support these projects and evaluates the normative bases of climate change policy. It regards climate change policy as a public problem that normative philosophy can shed light on and assumes that the development of policy should be based on values regarding what is important to respect, preserve, and protect. What sort of policy do we owe the poor of the world who are particularly vulnerable to climate change? Why should our generation take on the burden of mitigating climate change caused, in no small part, by emissions from people now dead? What value is lost when species go extinct, because of climate change? This book presents a broad and inclusive discussion of climate change policy, relevant to those with interests in public policy, development studies, environmental studies, political theory, and moral and political philosophy.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2014-04-14
  • Mått: 150 x 231 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 540 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 276
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781107017306
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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.

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'This book is a penetrating and comprehensive first effort to tackle a largely unacknowledged but supremely important moral dilemma. It is a unique contribution to advancing the literature on climate change and shows the importance of our necessary initiatives to exit the fossil fuel regime by raising prices to decrease demand and to create a direct threat to the only source of energy now affordable to many of the world's poorest struggling for sustainable development.' Henry Shue, Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford

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