Title Climate justice in a non-ideal world / edited by Clare Heyward and Dominic Roser

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Climate Justice in a Non-Ideal World; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Tableof Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Ideal Theory, Non-Ideal Theory, and Climate Change; Non-Ideal Theory and Climate Justice in This Volume; References; Part I: Facing Reality: Responding to an Unjust World; Chapter 1: Climate Change and Non-Ideal Theory: Six Ways of Responding to Non-Compliance; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Climate Ethics; 1.3 Response 1-Target Modification; 1.4 Response 2-Responsibility Reallocation; 1.5 Response 3-Burden Shifting I 1.6 Response 4-Burden Shifting II1.7 Response 5-Compromising Additional Moral Ideals; 1.8 Response 6-Increasing Compliance; 1.9 Normative Framework and Substantive Hypotheses; 1.9.1 Methodological framework; 1.9.2 Substantive proposals; 1.10 Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 2: A Climate of Disorder: What to Do About the Obstacles to Effective Climate Politics; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Disorder; 2.3 A Non-Ideal Research Agenda; 2.3.1 The large number and variety of actors that must cooperate; 2.3.2 The scale and influence of the fossil fuel industry 2.3.3 Spatial divergence between mitigation costs and environmental impacts2.3.4 Temporal divergence between mitigation costs and benefits; 2.3.5 No natural leaders; 2.3.6 High technological cost, complexity, and uncertainty; 2.4 Mutually Reinforcing Strategies; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 3: Difference-Making and Individuals ́Climate-Related Obligations; 3.1 Individuals ́Climate-Related Obligations; 3.2 Our Actions Always Make a Difference; 3.3 Low Probability Expectation of Major Difference; 3.4 High Probability of (Repeated) Minor Difference; 3.5 Public Policy; Acknowledgements 5.6 Making the Norms Stickier5.7 Recapping; Acknowledgements; References; Part II: Less Injustice: Steps in the Right Direction; Chapter 6: Justice and Choice of Legal Instrument under the Durban Mandate: Ideal and Not So Ideal Legal Forms; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Key Assumptions and Definitions; 6.3 Legal Form under the Durban Mandated Negotiations; 6.3.1 Debate on legal form under the Durban mandate; 6.3.2 Normative assumptions behind ̀legal form ́discourses; 6.4 A Climate Treaty as an ̀Ideal Form;́ (a) Compliance/effectiveness; (b) Trade competiveness; (c) Finance Summary This volume seeks to make normative theorising on climate justice more relevant and applicable to political realities and public policy Subject Environmental justice. Global environmental change. Climatic changes Climatic changes -- Political aspects Climatic changes -- Moral and ethical aspects climate change. SCIENCE -- Global Warming & Climate Change. Climatic changes Climatic changes -- Moral and ethical aspects Climatic changes -- Political aspects Environmental justice Global environmental change Form Electronic book ISBN 0191061638 9780191061639

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