TY - BOOK ID - 85297902 TI - The moral challenge of dangerous climate change : values, poverty, and policy PY - 2014 SN - 1139898450 113990440X 1139083651 1107017300 1107678501 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Climatic changes KW - Environmental ethics. KW - Environmental quality KW - Human ecology KW - Ethics KW - Changes, Climatic KW - Changes in climate KW - Climate change KW - Climate change science KW - Climate changes KW - Climate variations KW - Climatic change KW - Climatic fluctuations KW - Climatic variations KW - Global climate changes KW - Global climatic changes KW - Climatology KW - Climate change mitigation KW - Teleconnections (Climatology) KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Environmental aspects KW - Global environmental change UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85297902 AB - This book examines the threat that climate change poses to projects of poverty eradication, sustainable development, and biodiversity preservation. It discusses the values that support these projects and evaluates the normative bases of climate change policy. It regards climate change policy as a public problem that normative philosophy can shed light on and assumes that the development of policy should be based on values regarding what is important to respect, preserve, and protect. What sort of policy do we owe the poor of the world who are particularly vulnerable to climate change? Why should our generation take on the burden of mitigating climate change caused, in no small part, by emissions from people now dead? What value is lost when species go extinct, because of climate change? This book presents a broad and inclusive discussion of climate change policy, relevant to those with interests in public policy, development studies, environmental studies, political theory, and moral and political philosophy. ER -