Climate change, ethics and human security / 
 Climate Change, Ethics & Human Security 
edited by Karen O'Brien, Asunción Lera St. Clair, Berit Kristoffersen. 
 - Cambridge :  Cambridge University Press,  2010. 
 - 1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages) :  digital, PDF file(s). 
<br/><br/> Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 
<br/><br/> The framing of climate change: why it matters /  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, politics and the global environment /  Human rights, climate change and discounting /  Climate change: a global test for contemporary political institutions and theories /  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 /  Heide Hackmann --  Karen O'Brien, Asunción Lera St. Clair and Berit Kristoffersen --  Karen O'Brien, Asunción Lera St. Clair and Berit Kristoffersen ;  Des Gasper ;  Jon Barnett --  J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks ;  W. Neil Adger and Donald R. Nelson --  Desmond McNeill ;  Simon Caney ;  Stephen Gardiner --  Livia Bizikova, Sarah Burch, John Robinson and Stewart Cohen ;  Asunción Lera St. Clair ;  Bronwyn Hayward and Karen O'Brien ;  Karen O'Brien, Asunción Lera St. Clair and Berit Kristoffersen.  Foreword /  Preface /  Framings.  Ethics.  Reflexivity. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780511762475 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human beings--Effect of climate on.<br/>Human security.<br/>Human rights.<br/>Climatic changes--Social aspects.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GF71  / .C56 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>304.2/3