Climate Change, Justice and Future GenerationsEdward Elgar Publishing, 2007 M01 1 - 304 pages Climate Change, Justice and Future Generations is a valuable contribution to the debate on both theoretical and applied justice in climate change, and it fills a manifest gap in the current literature. Marco Grasso, International Environmental Agreements |
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... effects of climate change? Should the needs (or rights) of present persons be viewed as prior to those of the not yet born in our decisions about climate change? This book will address many of these, as well as a number of related, ques ...
... effects of climate change? Should the needs (or rights) of present persons be viewed as prior to those of the not yet born in our decisions about climate change? This book will address many of these, as well as a number of related, ques ...
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... effects of climate change . 1.2 WEATHER AND CLIMATE : AN AWKWARD PARTNERSHIP — The weather - defined as the ' state or condition of the atmosphere at a partic- ular place and time'8 and comprised of ' weather elements ' such as tempera ...
... effects of climate change . 1.2 WEATHER AND CLIMATE : AN AWKWARD PARTNERSHIP — The weather - defined as the ' state or condition of the atmosphere at a partic- ular place and time'8 and comprised of ' weather elements ' such as tempera ...
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... effects of weather are regrettable but not unethical , inequitable or unjust ( I use these terms interchangeably ) since they are no one's fault . This is not to say that features of societies that exacerbate the impact of weather ...
... effects of weather are regrettable but not unethical , inequitable or unjust ( I use these terms interchangeably ) since they are no one's fault . This is not to say that features of societies that exacerbate the impact of weather ...
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... effects on human civilisation . There is increasing evidence , for example , that the cooling acted as a catalyst ... effect . — While a preoccupation with weather is arguably as central to the human condition as that of love , death and ...
... effects on human civilisation . There is increasing evidence , for example , that the cooling acted as a catalyst ... effect . — While a preoccupation with weather is arguably as central to the human condition as that of love , death and ...
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... effects on future generations that the IPCC suggest. They have also claimed that the net long-term impacts of climate change on humankind will either be negligible or mildly beneficial, as a result of localised reductions in cold ...
... effects on future generations that the IPCC suggest. They have also claimed that the net long-term impacts of climate change on humankind will either be negligible or mildly beneficial, as a result of localised reductions in cold ...
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Page 20 - Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time-frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner.
Page 7 - the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate' [5], and was sufficiently confident by the time of the Third Assessment Report to conclude that 'there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities
Page 20 - Climate change' means a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods.
Page 91 - Development (1987, p.8) defines sustainable development as: . . . development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Page 150 - if and only if X can have rights, and other things being equal, an aspect of X's well-being (his interest) is a sufficient reason for holding some other person(s) to be under a duty".
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Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature: Theories ... David Schlosberg No preview available - 2007 |