Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security

by Edited by Karen O'Brien , Asunción Lera St. Clair , Berit Kristoffersen

• ISBN13: 9780521197663
• ISBN10: 052119766X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Presenting human security perspectives on climate change, this volume raises issues of equity, ethics and environmental justice, as well as our capacity to respond to what is increasingly considered to be the greatest societal challenge for humankind. Written by international experts, it argues that climate change must be viewed as an issue of human security, and not an environmental problem that can be managed in isolation from larger questions concerning development trajectories, and ethical obligations towards the poor and to future generations. The concept of human security offers a new approach to the challenges of climate change, and the responses that could lead to a more equitable and sustainable future. Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security will be of interest to researchers, policy makers, and practitioners concerned with the human dimensions of climate change, as well as to upper-level students in the social sciences and humanities interested in climate change.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Framings

The framing of climate change

The idea of human security

Climate change science and policy in the South Pacific, as if people mattered

Equity

A 'shared vision'? Why inequality should worry us

Fair decision making in a new climate of risk

Ethics

Ethics, politics and the global environment

Human rights, climate change and discounting

Climate change: a global test for contemporary political institutions and theories

Reflexivity

Linking sustainable development with climate change adaptation and mitigation

Global poverty and climate change: the responsibility to protect

Security for whom? Social contracts in a changing climate

Towards a new science on climate change

Index

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