1st Edition
The Ethical Underpinnings of Climate Economics
236 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Despite their obvious importance, the ethical implications of climate change are often neglected in economic evaluations of mitigation and adaptation policies. Economic climate models provide estimates of the value of mitigation benefits, provide understanding of the costs of reducing emissions, and develop tools for making policy choices under uncertainty. They have thus offered theoretical and... Read more
- Introduction
- "Do not Ask for Morality" John Broome
- The Ethics of Discounting: an Introduction Marc D. Davidson
- Climate Change, Intergenerational Equity, and the Social Discount Rate Simon Caney
- When Utility Maximization is not Enough: Sufficientarianism and the Economics of Climate Change Simo Kyllönen and Alessandra Basso
- A New Defence of Probability Discounting Kian Mintz-Woo
- Climate Change Mitigation, Sustainability and Non-substitutability Säde Hormio
- Dimensions of Climate Disadvantage John O'Neill
- Moral asymmetries in economic evaluations of climate change: The challenge of assessing diverse effects Blake Francis
- The Ethical Failures of Climate Economics Clive Spash & Clemens Gattringer
- A Lockean Approach to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Hans-Peter Weikard
- Climate Change Policy, Economic Analysis and Price-Independent Conceptions of Ultimate Value Adrian Walsh
Biography
Adrian Walsh is an Associate Professor at the School of Humanities, University of New England, Australia.
Säde Hormio is a PhD candidate and researcher in Climate Ethics and Economics project at the Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki.
Duncan Purves is a Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Environmental Studies at New York University, USA.
