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1 online resource (528 pages) |
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Climate change and sustainable development: Ethical perspectives on land use and food production; Climate change andsustainable development: Ethical perspectives on land use and food production; Table of contents; Preface; Keynote contributions; Domains of climate ethics: an overview; Abstract; Introduction: the ethical profile of climate change; Ethical suppositions in climate economics; Stabilization level of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration; Distribution schemes for remaining emission entitlements; Responsibility for historical emissions?; Adaptation opportunities |
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Climate engineeringContraction and convergence versus greenhuse development rights; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; The global governance of climate change, forests, water, and food: normative challenges; Abstract; Introduction; Climate Change; Climate change and food; Climate change ethical challenges; Current state of climate governance; Inferences; Water; Water and food; Water ethical challenges; Current state of water governance; Inferences; Forests; Forests and food; Forest ethical challenges; Inferences; Implications for food; Implications of the above for food |
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Food ethical challengesInferences; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; The willed blindness of humans: animal welfare and beyond; Abstract; Introduction; Animal welfare; Meat and nature; A new moral vision?; References; Section 1. Sustainability: general issues; Which sustainability suits you?; Abstract; Introduction; Sustainability and the triple-P-concept; Different worldviews; Worldviews and sustainability; Triple-P and principles of sustainability; Conclusion; References |
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The value(s) of sustainability within a pragmatically justified theory of values: considerations in the context of climate changeAbstract; Climate change and sustainability; Sustainability as a moral value (set); Value conflicts within a pragmatically justified theory of values; Acknowledgements; References; Towards an ecological space paradigm: fair and sustainable distribution of environmental resources; Abstract; Introduction; Currency; Scope; Pattern; Conclusion; References; Section 2. Property rights and commons; Addressing the commons: normative approaches to common pool resources |
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AbstractCommon pool resources; A normative approach to the commons; Environmental rights and the concept of group rights; Summary; References; A global solution to land grabbing? An institutional cosmopolitan approach; Abstract; Introduction; The Food vs. Fuel-Land-Grabbing (FFLG) case; Human rights relevant to the case of land grabbing and biofuels; A critique of human rights and a global code of conduct; An institutional cosmopolitan view of the FFLG case; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Climate change, intellectual property rights and global justice; Abstract |
| Summary |
Climate change is a major framing condition for sustainable development of agriculture and food. Global food production is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and at the same time it is among the sectors worst affected by climate change. This book brings together a multidisciplinary group of authors exploring the ethical dimensions of climate change and food. Conceptual clarifications provide a necessary basis for putting sustainable development into practice. Adaptation and mitigation demand altering both agricultural and consumption practices. Intensive vs. extensive produc |
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Introduction: from medicines to climate change |
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Print version record |
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Climatic changes
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Climatic changes -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses
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Sustainable development -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses
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Life sciences.
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Climate Change
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Biological Science Disciplines
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climate change.
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biological sciences.
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Climatic changes
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Climatic changes -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Life sciences
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Sustainable development -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Meisch, Simon
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| ISBN |
9789086867530 |
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9086867537 |
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