Presenting human security perspectives on climate change, this volume raises issues of equity, ethics and environmental justice, as well as our capacity to respond to what is increasingly considered to be the greatest societal challenge for humankind. Written by international experts, it argues that climate change must be viewed as an issue of human security, and not an environ...
Presenting human security perspectives on climate change, this volume raises issues of equity, ethics and environmental justice, as well as our capacity to respond to what is increasingly considered to be the greatest societal challenge for humankind. Written by international experts, it argues that climate change must be viewed as an issue of human security, and not an environmental problem that can be managed in isolation from larger questions concerning development trajectories, and ethical obligations towards the poor and to future generations. The concept of human security offers a new approach to the challenges of climate change, and the responses that could lead to a more equitable and sustainable future. Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security will be of interest to researchers, policy makers, and practitioners concerned with the human dimensions of climate change, as well as to upper-level students in the social sciences and humanities interested in climate change.
The inequalities that are associated with climate change are closely linked to existing inequalities, and they cannot be divorced from the very processes that create these in the first place. The equality dimensions of climate change are not limited to questions of historical responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions, but encompass a much broader range of questions about the underlying and often inequitable factors that contribute to vulnerability.
Although much progress has been made in terms of learning how to enable and promote good development, aid continues to be driven by charitable, moralistic and top-down expert knowledge that frames poverty as separate from power and social relations, or as the geographically self-contained problems of poor countries. Dominant framings have con... (查看原文)
Notably absent is a vision of a more just and sustainable world build on an economy that is not based on carbon, where values associated with universalism and benevolence are prioritised. The ethical implications of these two contrasting visions are enormous, and key questions that are excluded by an environmental framing include: 'Whose vision is being pursued by society and why?' and more importantly, 'Whose values count?' (查看原文)
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