Climate change and social justice /

The impacts of climate change can already be felt in society and on the Earth itself. As new evidence of the environmental impact of climate change is constantly emerging, we are forced to confront the significance of our political decisions about who will pay the price of responding to a changing c...

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Other Authors: Moss, Jeremy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2009.
Series:MUP academic monographs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : climate change as an equity issue / Ross Garnaut
  • Introduction / Jeremy Moss
  • The blame game : assigning responsibility for the impacts of anthropogenic climate change / David J. Karoly
  • Climate change as an ethical issue / Peter Singer
  • Climate justice / Jeremy Moss
  • Climate change and intergenerational equity / John Quiggin
  • Some distributional issues in greenhouse gas policy design / John Freebairn
  • Just carbon trading? / Robyn Eckersley
  • Justice and adaptation to climate change / Jon Barnett
  • Primary health care responses to climate change / Grant Andrew Blashki, Helen Louise Berry, Michael Richard Kidd
  • Climate refugees and new understandings of security / Cam Walker
  • Climate justice : key debates, goals and strategies / Jess Fritze, John Wiseman
  • More than just money : remembering equity and justice in international adaptation policy / Charlotte L. Sterrett
  • Equitable climate policy in a dangerous world / Benjamin L. Preston.