Distributing the burdens of climate change
In: Environmental politics, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 556-575
ISSN: 0964-4016
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In: Environmental politics, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 556-575
ISSN: 0964-4016
In: Journal of global ethics, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 3-20
ISSN: 1744-9634
In: Politics, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 8-15
ISSN: 1467-9256
Global climate change raises a number of important issues for political scientists and theorists. One issue concerns the ethics of implementing policies that seek to manage the threats associated with dangerous climate change in order to protect the interests of future generations. The focus of much of the debate about climate change and inter-generational equity is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol to this Convention. This article outlines the mechanisms adopted by the Kyoto Protocol and three rival 'climate architectures', evaluating each in terms of some basic principles of equity.
In: Environmental politics, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 453-469
ISSN: 1743-8934
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 55, Heft 1, S. 225-242
ISSN: 1467-9248
Climate change raises important questions of global distributive justice, which can be defined as the issue of how benefits and burdens should be distributed within and between generations. This article addresses two conceptual issues that underpin the relationship between climate change and the part of distributive justice concerned with the entitlements of future persons. The first is the role of reciprocity, conceived either as mutual advantage or fair play, in the allocation of distributive entitlements between generations. The second is the extent to which theories of 'justice as reciprocity' can ground duties of intergenerational justice that underpin radical policies to manage the causes and impacts of global climate change. I argue that theories of justice as fair reciprocity generate significant duties of environmental conservation, despite these duties not being owed directly to the not-yet-born.
In: Politics, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 8-15
ISSN: 0263-3957
In: Environmental politics, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 453-469
ISSN: 0964-4016
In: Talking politics: a journal for students and teachers of politics, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 183-187
ISSN: 0955-8780
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 47, Heft 1, S. 53-66
ISSN: 1467-9248
Global climate change has important implications for the way in which benefits and burdens will be distributed amongst present and future generations. As a result it raises important questions of intergenerational justice. It is shown that there is at least one serious problem for those who wish to approach these questions by utilizing familiar principles of justice. This is that such theories often pre-suppose harm-based accounts of injustice which are incompatible with the fact that the very social policies which climatologists and scientists claim will reduce the risks of climate change will also predictably, if indirectly, determine which individuals will live in the future. One proposed solution to this problem is outlined grounded in terms of the notion of collective interests.
In: Political studies, Band 47, Heft 1, S. 53-66
ISSN: 0032-3217
In: Journal of public policy, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 201-211
ISSN: 1469-7815
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 649-650
ISSN: 0309-1317
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 649-650
ISSN: 0309-1317
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 156-157
ISSN: 1469-8684
In: Journal of public policy, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 241-265
ISSN: 1469-7815
ABSTRACTLaw is an instrument which can be used by central government to influence its environment, including other levels of government. This paper examines a number of fundamental questions about the nature of legal influence upon local authorities in Britain. Legislation affects local authorities in a variety of ways: through making direct reference to local authority organisations and the services they provide; through affecting all large organisations, public or private; and through affecting the organisations and individuals with which local authorities interact. In the 1970s a large proportion of legislation was concerned with the financial aspects of local services. Relatively few laws make substantive changes in the legal framework within which local authorities operate and much legislation can be categorised as 'anodyne'. However, particular items of legislation can produce such substantive changes in public policies and in the powers of different organisations within government.