Efficiency Sustainability And Justice To Future Generations

Author : Klaus Mathis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9400718691

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Efficiency, Sustainability, and Justice to Future Generations by Klaus Mathis Pdf

Fifty years after the famous essay “The Problem of Social Cost” (1960) by the Nobel laureate Ronald Coase, Law and Economics seems to have become the lingua franca of American jurisprudence, and although its influence on European jurisprudence is only moderate by comparison, it has also gained popularity in Europe. A highly influential publication of a different nature was the Brundtland Report (1987), which extended the concept of sustainability from forestry to the whole of the economy and society. According to this report, development is sustainable when it “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. A key requirement of sustainable development is justice to future generations. It is still a matter of fact that the law as well as the theories of justice are generally restricted to the resolution of conflicts between contemporaries and between people living in the same country. This in turn raises a number of questions: what is the philosophical justification for intergenerational justice? What bearing does sustainability have on the efficiency principle? How do we put a policy of sustainability into practice, and what is the role of the law in doing so? The present volume is devoted to these questions. In Part One, “Law and Economics”, the role of economic analysis and efficiency in law is examined more closely. Part Two, “Law and Sustainability”, engages with the themes of sustainable development and justice to future generations. Finally, Part Three, “Law, Economics and Sustainability”, addresses the interrelationships between the different aspects.

Author : Edward A. Page
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845424718

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Climate Change, Justice and Future Generations by Edward A. Page Pdf

Climate Change, Justice and Future Generations is a valuable contribution to the debate on both theoretical and applied justice in climate change, and it fills a manifest gap in the current literature. Marco Grasso, International Environmental Agreements Page effectively marries the issues raised by climate change science with analytical philosophy to provide a perspective on why or why not measures should be taken to reduce climate change and the risks/harm it poses for future generations. . . a valuable book for politicians and policy makers who seek to change the world and manage its climate. Antoinette M. Mannion, Electronic Green Journal We are badly in need of ways of understanding global problems that go beyond the current economic paradigms. Climate Change, Justice and Future Generations helps us with this task by effectively linking climate change with some important mainstream work on political justice. It should be a very useful book not just for the classroom and the academy, but also for the realm of policy. Stephen Gardiner, University of Washington, US The book begins with a detailed account of the science of climate change that is user friendly for non-scientists without sacrificing depth. . . Page s analysis is impressive in both its scope and execution, and has a relevance and potential appeal in a number of fields. Kerri Woods, Political Studies Review Climate Change, Justice and Future Generations is an authoritative, analytical and extremely scholarly integration of scientific and technical information, empirical data and modelling concerning global climate change and high-level normative analysis. Page convincingly and patiently lays out the argument, including the ways in which climate change challenges settled modes of ethical thought, despite it being one of the most, if not the, important ethical issues of the age. As a book on both theoretical and applied ethics it makes an important contribution to the field. John Barry, Queen s University Belfast, UK What the climate change policy called Contraction and Convergence has lacked until now is an authoritative theoretical grounding. Here Ed Page puts this right. In masterful fashion, he dissects the issues at stake in designing climate change policy, and leaves his readers in no doubt that there is a fair and effective alternative to rising tides. This is a book for students, researchers and for anyone with the feeling that business as usual is no longer an option. Andrew Dobson, University of Keele, UK Global climate change raises important questions of international and intergenerational justice. In this important new book the author places research on the origins and impacts of climate change within the broader context of distributive justice and sustainable development. He argues that a range of theories of distribution notably those grounded in ideals of equality, priority and sufficiency converge on the adoption of the ambitious global climate policy framework known as Contraction and Convergence . Climate Change, Justice and Future Generations will be of great interest to academics and students specialising in environmental ethics, politics and environmental sustainability. It will also be of general interest to those concerned with climate change and the environment.

Author : Peter Lawrence
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780857934161

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Justice for Future Generations by Peter Lawrence Pdf

Peter Lawrence�s Justice for Future Generations breaks new ground by using a multidisciplinary approach to tackle the issue of what ethical obligations current generations have towards future generations in addressing the threat of climate change. This

Author : J. Roemer,K. Suzumura
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230236769

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Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability by J. Roemer,K. Suzumura Pdf

This book addresses distributive justice across generations and includes original theories from distinguished economists on intergenerational equity, efficiency and rationality, which discuss policies on social security, pensions, and environmental degradation, as examples of policies of the present generation which impact upon future generations.

Author : Axel Gosseries
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509525751

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What is Intergenerational Justice? by Axel Gosseries Pdf

Can people alive now have duties to future generations, the unborn millions? If so, what do we owe them? What does “justice” mean in an intergenerational context, both between people who will coexist at some point, and between generations that will never overlap? In this book, Axel Gosseries provides a forensic examination of these issues, comparing and analyzing various views about what we owe our successors. He discusses links between justice and sustainability, and looks at the implications of the fact that our successors’ preferences are heavily influenced by what we will actually leave them and by the education they receive. He also points to how these theoretical considerations apply to real-life issues, ranging from pension reform and Brexit to biodiversity and the climate crisis. He ends by outlining how intergenerational considerations may translate into institutional design. Anyone grappling with the dilemmas of our obligations to the future, from students and scholars to policy makers and active citizens, will find this an invaluable theoretical and practical guide to this moral and political minefield.

Author : Robert Doyle Bullard,Julian Agyeman,Bob Evans
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849771771

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Just Sustainabilities by Robert Doyle Bullard,Julian Agyeman,Bob Evans Pdf

Environmental activists and academics alike are realizing that a sustainable society must be a just one. Environmental degradation is almost always linked to questions of human equality and quality of life. Throughout the world, those segments of the population that have the least political power and are the most marginalized are selectively victimized by environmental crises. This book argues that social and environmental justice within and between nations should be an integral part of the policies and agreements that promote sustainable development. The book addresses the links between environmental quality and human equality and between sustainability and environmental justice.

Author : Eric A. Posner,David Weisbach
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400834402

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Climate Change Justice by Eric A. Posner,David Weisbach Pdf

A provocative contribution to the climate justice debate Climate change and justice are so closely associated that many people take it for granted that a global climate treaty should—indeed, must—directly address both issues together. But, in fact, this would be a serious mistake, one that, by dooming effective international limits on greenhouse gases, would actually make the world's poor and developing nations far worse off. This is the provocative and original argument of Climate Change Justice. Eric Posner and David Weisbach strongly favor both a climate change agreement and efforts to improve economic justice. But they make a powerful case that the best—and possibly only—way to get an effective climate treaty is to exclude measures designed to redistribute wealth or address historical wrongs against underdeveloped countries. In clear language, Climate Change Justice proposes four basic principles for designing the only kind of climate treaty that will work—a forward-looking agreement that requires every country to make greenhouse-gas reductions but still makes every country better off in its own view. This kind of treaty has the best chance of actually controlling climate change and improving the welfare of people around the world.

Author : Geir B. Asheim
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402062001

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Justifying, Characterizing and Indicating Sustainability by Geir B. Asheim Pdf

This volume brings together 18 articles published during the last 20 years, devoted to understanding the concept of sustainable development. The volume analyzes sustainability from three different perspectives and addresses sustainable development from prescriptive, descriptive and operational points of view. Each part begins with an article which functions as a survey. An up- to-date introduction serves to tie the three parts of the volume together.

Author : Joerg Chet Tremmel
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849774369

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A Theory of Intergenerational Justice by Joerg Chet Tremmel Pdf

This highly accessible book provides an extensive and comprehensive overview of current research and theory about why and how we should protect future generations. It exposes how and why the interests of people today and those of future generations are often in conflict and what can be done. It rebuts critical concepts such as Parfits' non-identity paradox and Beckerman's denial of any possibility of intergenerational justice. The core of the book is the lucid application of a veil of ignorance to derive principles of intergenerational justice which show that our duties to posterity are stronger than is often supposed. Tremmel's approach demands that each generation both consider and improve the well-being of future generations. To measure the well-being of future generations Tremmel employs the Human Development Index rather than the metrics of utilitarian subjective happiness. The book thus answers in detailed, concrete terms the two most important questions of every theory of intergenerational justice: what to sustain? and how much to sustain?

Author : Tatsuyoshi Saijo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9811554099

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Future Design by Tatsuyoshi Saijo Pdf

This book discusses imaginary future generations and how current decision-making will influence those future generations. Markets and democracies focus on the present and therefore tend to make us forget that we are living in the present, with ancestors preceding and descendants succeeding us. Markets are excellent devices to equate supply and demand in the short term, but not for allocating resources between current and future generations, since future generations do not exist yet. Democracy is also not “applicable” for future generations, since citizens vote for candidates who will serve members of their, i.e., the current, generation. In order to overcome these shortcomings, the authors discusses imaginary future generations and future ministries in the context of current decision-making in fields such as the environment, urban management, forestry, water management, and finance. The idea of imaginary future generations comes from the Native American Iroquois, who had strong norms that compelled them to incorporate the interests of people seven generations ahead when making decisions.

Author : Richard B. Norgaard
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sustainability and the Economics of Assuring Assets for Future Generations by Richard B. Norgaard Pdf

Author : Heather M. Farley,Zachary A. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351124904

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Sustainability by Heather M. Farley,Zachary A. Smith Pdf

In this second edition, the authors present new developments in the sustainability discussion and argue that a new understanding of sustainability is needed if we are to truly serve future generations ecologically, economically, and equitably. Despite the great flurry of activity around sustainability, the concept itself remains highly contested. This book argues that a new conceptualization of sustainability is needed if we are to achieve a healthful and sustainable environment for the long term. The authors examine the uses, misuses, and abuses of sustainability, and provide case studies of faux sustainability in practice. Seeking to redefine and clarify the concept and its application, they offer a new definition of sustainability – what they call neo-sustainability – to help guide policies and practices that respect the primacy of the environment, the natural limits of the environment, and the relationship between environmental, social, and economic systems. Offering a comprehensive view of sustainability, this text is essential reading for all students and scholars in the field. It will also be of interest to environmental professionals and activists.

Author : Karen Bickerstaff,Gordon Walker,Harriet Bulkeley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781780325804

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Energy Justice in a Changing Climate by Karen Bickerstaff,Gordon Walker,Harriet Bulkeley Pdf

Energy justice is one of the most critical, and yet least developed, concepts associated with sustainability. Much has been written about the sustainability of low-carbon energy systems and policies - with an emphasis on environmental, economic and geopolitical issues. However, less attention has been directed at the social and equity implications of these dynamic relations between energy and low-carbon objectives - the complexity of injustice associated with whole energy systems (from extractive industries, through to consumption and waste) that transcend national boundaries and the social, political-economic and material processes driving the experience of energy injustice and vulnerability. Drawing on a substantial body of original research from an international collaboration of experts this unique collection addresses energy poverty, just innovation, aesthetic justice and the justice implications of low-carbon energy systems and technologies. The book offers new thinking on how interactions between climate change, energy policy, and equity and social justice can be understood and develops a critical agenda for energy justice research.

Author : Dina L. Townsend
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781789905946

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Human Dignity and the Adjudication of Environmental Rights by Dina L. Townsend Pdf

Focusing on contemporary debates in philosophy and legal theory, this ground-breaking book provides a compelling enquiry into the nature of human dignity. The author not only illustrates that dignity is a concept that can extend our understanding of our environmental impacts and duties, but also highlights how our reliance on and relatedness to the environment further extends and enhances our understanding of dignity itself.

Author : Gunter Bombaerts,Kirsten Jenkins,Yekeen A. Sanusi,Wang Guoyu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030240219

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Energy Justice Across Borders by Gunter Bombaerts,Kirsten Jenkins,Yekeen A. Sanusi,Wang Guoyu Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. We must find new and innovative ways of conceptualizing transboundary energy issues, of embedding concerns of ethics or justice into energy policy, and of operationalizing response to them. This book stems from the emergent gap; the need for comparative approaches to energy justice, and for those that consider ethical traditions that go beyond the classical Western approach. This edited volume unites the fields of energy justice and comparative philosophy to provide an overarching global perspective and approach to applying energy ethics. We contribute to this purpose in four sections: setting the scene, practice, applying theory to practice, and theoretical approaches. Through the chapters featured in the volume, we position the book as one that contributes to energy justice scholarship across borders of nations, borders of ways of thinking and borders of disciplines. The outcome will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students studying energy justice, ethics and environment, as well as energy scholars, policy makers, and energy analysts.