Handbook of Intergenerational Justice

Edited by Joerg Chet Tremmel, Scientific Director, Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations, Germany

'The contributors to this volume undertake to establish the foundations and definitions of "intergenerational justice" and to explore its capacity to guide us in policy and public opinion judgments we must make to face unprecedented issues. . . We are changing the biosphere and using resources to an extent never contemplated in the history of ethics. Deterioration of our oceans, loss of topsoil, insecurity about potable water supplies, the ozone hole, global warming, and the question about how to handle high-level nuclear waste which remains lethal perhaps 400,000 years from now, are some examples whose consequences reach far beyond inherited principles and policies of responsibility to others. This Handbook works to open a path for debate, extension of our tradition and invention of new thinking on these issues.'

• Contents:IntroductionPART I: FOUNDATIONS AND DEFINITIONS OF GENERATIONAL JUSTICE1. Responsibility for Future Generations – Scope and LimitsDieter Birnbacher2. Principles of Generational JusticeChristoph Lumer3. The Impossibility of a Theory of Intergenerational JusticeWilfred Beckerman4. John Rawls on the Rights of Future GenerationsClaus Dierksmeier5. Justice Between Generations: The Limits of Procedural JusticeMichael Wallack6. Rule Change and Intergenerational JusticeAxel Gosseries and Mathias Hungerbühler7. The Economic Sustainability IndicatorPeer Ederer, Philipp Schuller and Stephan Willms8. Protecting Future Generations: Intergenerational Buck-passing, Theoretical Ineptitude and a Brief for a Global Core Precautionary PrincipleStephen M. Gardiner9. Institutional Determinants of Public Debt: A Political Economy PerspectiveBernd Süssmuth and Robert K. von Weizsäcker PART II: INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF GENERATIONAL JUSTICE10. Establishing Intergenerational Justice in National ConstitutionsJoerg Chet Tremmel11. A Constitutional Law for Future Generations – The ‘Other’ Form of the Social Contract: The Generation ContractPeter Häberle12. The French Constitutional Charter for the Environment: An Effective Instrument?Dominique Bourg13. Commission for Future Generations in the Knesset: Lessons LearntShlomo Shoham and Nira Lamay14. Institutional Protection of Succeeding Generations – Ombudsman for Future Generations in HungaryBenedek Jávor15. The Role of CPB in Dutch Economic PolicyRocus van Opstal and Jacqueline Timmerhuis16. Intergenerational JusticeEmmanuel AgiusInformation About the Foundation for the Rights of Future GenerationsIndex