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Subject(s)

• Environmental justice [Browse]
• Climatic changes—Social aspects [Browse]
• Environmental policy—Social aspects [Browse]
• Transitional justice [Browse]
• Environmental law, International [Browse]

Editor

• Meyer, Lukas H. [Browse]
• Sanklecha, Pranay [Browse]

Summary note

"This volume investigates who can be considered responsible for historical emissions and their consequences, and how and why this should matter for the design of a just global climate policy. The authors discuss the underlying philosophical issues of responsibility for historical emissions, the unjust enrichment of the earlier developed nations, as well as questions of transitional justice. By bringing together a plurality of perspectives, both in terms of the theoretical understanding of the issues and the political perspectives on the problem, the book also presents the remaining disagreements and controversies in the debate. Providing a systematic introduction to the debate on historical emissions and climate change, this book provides an unbiased and authoritative guide for advanced students, researchers and policymakers in climate change justice and governance, and more widely, for anyone interested in the broader issues of global justice"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: on the significance of historical emissions for climate ethics / Lukas H. Meyer and Pranay Sanklecha
• Climate ethics, affirmative action and unjust enrichment / David Heyd
• Historical responsibility and climate change / Janna Thompson
• Historical emissions: does ignorance matter? / Daniel Butt
• How legal systems deal with issues of responsibility for past harmful behavior / Daniel A. Farber
• Asking beneficiaries to pay for past pollution / Anja Karnein
• Benefiting from unjust acts and benefiting from injustice: historical emissions and the beneficiary pays principle / Brian Berkey
• A luck-based moral defense of grandfathering / Rudolf Schuessler
• In defense of emissions egalitarianism? / Christian Baatz and Konrad Ott
• In the name of political possibility: a new proposal for thinking about the role and relevance of historical greenhouse gas emissions / Sarah Kenehan
• Right to development and historical emissions: a perspective from the particularly vulnerable countries / Mizan R. Khan.

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ISBN

• 9781107069534 ((hardcover))
• 110706953X ((hardcover))

LCCN

2016030025

OCLC

959200423

Other standard number

• 40026996354

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