Global Ethics and Climate Change

by Harris, Paul G.

• ISBN13: 9781474403993
• ISBN10: 1474403999
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-03-01
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

Global Ethics and Climate Change combines the science of climate change with ethical critique to expose its impact, the increasing intensity of dangerous trends - particularly growing global affluence, material consumption and pollution - and the intensifying moral dimensions of changes to the environment. It shows you that global justice is vital to mitigating climate change.

Author Biography

Paul G. Harris is Chair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. 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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

Part I: The Challenge
1. Global Climate Change
2. Justice in a Changing World

Part II: International Justice
3. International Environmental Justice
4. International Justice and Climate Change

Part III: Global Justice
5. Cosmopolitan Ethics and Justice
6. Affluence, Consumption and Atmospheric Pollution
7. Cosmopolitan Diplomacy and Climate Policy
8. The Unavoidability of Global Justice

References
Index