UID:
almafu_9959234802702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (355 p.)
ISBN:
0-262-30078-8
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1-280-49914-1
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9786613594372
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0-262-30154-7
Inhalt:
Predictions about global climate change have produced both stark scenarios of environmental catastrophe and purportedly pragmatic ideas about adaptation. This book takes a different perspective exploring the idea that the challenge of adapting to global climate change is fundamentally an ethical one.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Adapting Humanity; I Adapting Restoration to Climate Change; 1 Nature Restoration as a Paradigm for the Human Relationship with Nature; 2 Environmental Virtues and the Aims of Restoration; 3 Global Warming and Virtues of Ecological Restoration; 4 History, Novelty, and Virtue in Ecological Restoration; II Integrating Ecology into the Virtue of Justice; 5 The Death of Restoration?; 6 Animal Flourishing and Capabilities in an Era of Global Change; 7 Environment as Meta-capability: Why a Dignified Human Life Requires a Stable Climate System
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8 Justice, Ecological Integrity, and Climate ChangeIII Adjusting Character to a Changing Environment; 9 Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming ; 10 The Virtue of Responsibility for the Global Climate; 11 Rethinking Greed; 12 Are We the Scum of the Earth? Climate Change, Geoengineering, and Humanity's Challenge; IV Reorganizing Institutions to Enable Human Virtue; 13 The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Caused by Us; 14 Human Values and Institutional Responses to Climate Change; 15 Alienation and the Commons; 16 Thinking like a Planet; About the Contributors; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-262-01753-9
Sprache:
Englisch
