Climate Ethics: Essential Readings

Stephen Mark Gardiner

Oxford University Press, 2010 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 351 pages

This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve as a source book for general reference, and for university courses that include a focus on the human dimensions of climate change. It should be of broad interest to all those concerned with global justice, environmental science and policy, and the future of humanity.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Climate Ethics: Essential Readings
• Editor: Stephen Mark Gardiner
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 0195399617, 9780195399615
• Length: 351 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Philosophy / Environmental; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy; Science / Environmental Science; Science / Global Warming & Climate Change; Social Science / General