Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: climate change and ethics
- 1 Energy, ethics, and the transformation of nature
- 2 Is no one responsible for global environmental tragedy? Climate change as a challenge to our ethical concepts
- 3 Greenhouse gas emission and the domination of posterity
- 4 Climate change, energy rights, and equality
- 5 Common atmospheric ownership and equal emissions entitlements
- 6 A Lockean defense of grandfathering emission rights
- 7 Parenting the planet
- 8 Living ethically in a greenhouse
- 9 Beyond business as usual: alternative wedges to avoid catastrophic climate change and create sustainable societies
- 10 Addressing competitiveness in US climate policy
- 11 Reconciling justice and efficiency: integrating environmental justice into domestic cap-and-trade programs for controlling greenhouse gases
- 12 Ethical dimensions of adapting to climate change-imposed risks
- 13 Does nature matter? The place of the nonhuman in the ethics of climate change
- 14 Human rights, climate change, and the trillionth ton
- Select bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 April 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: climate change and ethics
- 1 Energy, ethics, and the transformation of nature
- 2 Is no one responsible for global environmental tragedy? Climate change as a challenge to our ethical concepts
- 3 Greenhouse gas emission and the domination of posterity
- 4 Climate change, energy rights, and equality
- 5 Common atmospheric ownership and equal emissions entitlements
- 6 A Lockean defense of grandfathering emission rights
- 7 Parenting the planet
- 8 Living ethically in a greenhouse
- 9 Beyond business as usual: alternative wedges to avoid catastrophic climate change and create sustainable societies
- 10 Addressing competitiveness in US climate policy
- 11 Reconciling justice and efficiency: integrating environmental justice into domestic cap-and-trade programs for controlling greenhouse gases
- 12 Ethical dimensions of adapting to climate change-imposed risks
- 13 Does nature matter? The place of the nonhuman in the ethics of climate change
- 14 Human rights, climate change, and the trillionth ton
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Ethics of Global Climate Change , pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011