1st Edition

Climate Change and Environmental Ethics

By Ved Nanda Copyright 2011
290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

There is a broad consensus that climate change presents the international community with a formidable challenge. Yet progress on all fronts - prevention, mitigation, and adaptation - has been slow. Ved P. Nanda finds an explanation for this disparity in the sharp divide between the developed and developing countries. Developing countries demand that major industrialized nations provide the... Read more
Introduction; I: Philosophy; 1: Toward an Earth Ethic: Aldo Leopold’s Anticipation of the Gaia Hypothesis; 2: Climate Change, Environmental Ethics, and Biocentrism; 3: Moral Ambiguities in the Politics of Climate Change; 4: Ethical and Prudential Responsibilities, Culture and Climate Change; II: Governance; 5: Closing the Boxes, Enlarging the Circles: Toward a New Paradigm of Global Governance and Economy; 6: Climate Change Policy with a Renewed Environmental Ethic: An Ecological Economics Approach; 7: Two Global Crises, Ethics Renewal, and Governance Reform; III: International Law and Human Rights; 8: Climate Change, Developing Countries, and Human Rights: An International Law Perspective; 9: Future Generations’ Rights: Linking Intergenerational and Intragenerational Rights in Ecojustice 1; 10: Climate Change and Poverty: Confronting Our Moral and Ethical Commitments: Some Reflections; IV: Civil Society; 11: Soft Power, NGOs, and Climate Change: The Case of The Nature Conservancy; 12: Climate Changes Everything; V: Case Studies; 13: Trends and Impacts of Climate Change in Cameroon, Central Africa: Considerations for Renewed Ethics towards Resilience Options for the Community; 14: Addressing Climate Change: Challenges, Ethics, and Hope

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