Global Ethics and Climate Change

by Paul G. Harris

Overview

Global Ethics and Climate Change combines the science of climate change with ethical critique to expose its impact, the increasing intensity of dangerous trends – particularly growing global affluence, material consumption and pollution – and the intensifying moral dimensions of changes to the environment. It shows you that global justice is vital to mitigating climate change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474403993
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	02/03/2016
Series:	Edinburgh Studies in Global Ethics
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Paul G. Harris is the Chair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. His work on global environmental politics and justice has been published widely in academic journals. Professor Harris is author or editor of many books, including Climate Change and American Foreign Policy (St. Martin’s Press/Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), International Equity and Global Environmental Politics (Ashgate, 2001), The Environment, International Relations and U.S. Foreign Policy (Georgetown UniversityPress, 2001), International Environmental Cooperation (Universtity Press of Colorado, 2002), Global Warming and East Asia (Routledge, 2003), Confronting Environmental Change in East and Southeast Asia (Earthscan/United Nations UniversityPress, 2005), Europe and Global Climate Change (Edward Elgar, 2007), Environmental Change and Foreign Policy (Routledge, 2009), Climate Change and Foreign Policy (Routledge, 2009), The Politics of Climate Change (Routledge, 2009), World Ethics and Climate Change (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2010), China’s Responsibility for Climate Change (Policy Press, 2011), Ethics and Global Environmental Policy (Edward Elgar, 2011), Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development in China (Policy Press, 2012), What’s Wrong with Climate Politics and How to Fix It (Polity, 2013), the Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (Routledge, 2014) and, with Graeme Lang, the Routledge Handbook of Environment and Society in Asia (Routledge, 2014), among others.

Table of Contents

PrefaceIntroductionPart I: The Challenge1. Global Climate Change2. Justice in a Changing WorldPart II: International Justice3. International Environmental Justice4. International Justice and Climate ChangePart III: Global Justice5. Cosmopolitan Ethics and Justice6. Affluence, Consumption and Atmospheric Pollution7. Cosmopolitan Diplomacy and Climate Policy8. The Unavoidability of Global JusticeReferencesIndex

Editorial Reviews

This accessible book is highly recommended reading for all interested in international climate change, especially those seeking perspectives beyond the usual policy fare.

Climate Law - Friedrich Soltau

Paul Harris argues that affluent people everywhere are, by their contributions to climate change, violating the rights of the poor. He makes a powerful case for focusing on individual rights and responsibilities in the framework of a new world ethic. I hope this book will be widely read, and acted upon.

Peter Singer