TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Brien,Karen L.
AU  - StClair,Asuncion Lera
AU  - Kristoffersen,Berit
TI  - Climate change, ethics and human security
SN  - 9780511762475 (ebook)
AV  - GF71 .C56 2010
U1  - 304.2/3 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Human beings
KW  - Effect of climate on
KW  - Human security
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Foreword; Heide Hackmann --; Preface; Karen O'Brien, Asunción Lera St. Clair and Berit Kristoffersen --; Framings; The framing of climate change: why it matters; Karen O'Brien, Asunción Lera St. Clair and Berit Kristoffersen; The idea of human security; Des Gasper; Climate change science and policy in the South Pacific, as if people mattered; Jon Barnett --; Equity; A 'shared vision'? Why inequality should worry us; J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks; Fair decision making in a new climate of risk; W. Neil Adger and Donald R. Nelson --; Ethics; Ethics, politics and the global environment; Desmond McNeill; Human rights, climate change and discounting; Simon Caney; Climate change: a global test for contemporary political institutions and theories; Stephen Gardiner --; Reflexivity; Linking sustainable development with climate change adaptation and mitigation; Livia Bizikova, Sarah Burch, John Robinson and Stewart Cohen; Global poverty and climate change: the responsibility to protect; Asunción Lera St. Clair; Security for whom? Social contracts in a changing climate; Bronwyn Hayward and Karen O'Brien; Towards a new science on climate change; Karen O'Brien, Asunción Lera St. Clair and Berit Kristoffersen
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511762475
ER  -