World Ethics and Climate Change: From International to Global Justice - Couverture souple

Harris, Paul G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0748639101 ISBN 13 : 9780748639106

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2009

Synopsis

More than two decades of international negotiations have failed to stem emissions of greenhouse gases that are causing global warming and climate change. This book identifies a way to escape this ongoing tragedy of the atmospheric commons. It takes a fresh approach to the ethics and practice of international environmental justice and proposes fundamental adjustments to the climate change regime, in the process drawing support from cosmopolitan ethics and global conceptions of justice. The author argues for 'cosmopolitan diplomacy', which sees people, rather than states alone, as the causes of climate change and the bearers of related rights, duties and obligations. Key Features *Describes the role of ethics and justice in world affairs and demonstrates that climate change is a matter of extreme injustice *Summarizes and critiques the flawed doctrine of international (interstate) justice upon which governments have premised climate change agreements and policies *Examines the practical and ethical significance for climate change of growing numbers of new consumers in the developing world *Proposes a cosmopolitan approach to climate change that is more principled, more practical and more politically viable than current international policies *For lecturers and students, a companion World Ethics and Climate Change learning guide is freely downloadable from www.euppublishing.com All of the author's royalties are directly paid to OXFAM in support of the world's poor, who are most harmed by - and least responsible for - climate change.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Paul G. Harris is the Chair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. His work on global environmental politics and justice has been published widely in academic journals. Professor Harris is author or editor of many books, including Climate Change and American Foreign Policy (St. Martin’s Press/Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), International Equity and Global Environmental Politics (Ashgate, 2001), The Environment, International Relations and U.S. Foreign Policy (Georgetown University Press, 2001), International Environmental Cooperation (Universtity Press of Colorado, 2002), Global Warming and East Asia (Routledge, 2003), Confronting Environmental Change in East and Southeast Asia (Earthscan/United Nations University Press, 2005), Europe and Global Climate Change (Edward Elgar, 2007), Environmental Change and Foreign Policy (Routledge, 2009), Climate Change and Foreign Policy (Routledge, 2009), The Politics of Climate Change (Routledge, 2009), World Ethics and Climate Change (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), China’s Responsibility for Climate Change (Policy Press, 2011), Ethics and Global Environmental Policy (Edward Elgar, 2011), Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development in China (Policy Press, 2012), What’s Wrong with Climate Politics and How to Fix It (Polity, 2013), the Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (Routledge, 2014) and, with Graeme Lang, the Routledge Handbook of Environment and Society in Asia (Routledge, 2014), among others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0748639101
• ISBN 13: 9780748639106
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible