Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change [electronic resource] : Human Virtues of the Future
Thompson, Allen.
Bendik-Keymer, Jeremy,1970-
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,
c2012.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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
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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Climatic changes.
Environmental ethics.
Environmental justice.
Global environmental change.
Human beings -- Climatic factors.
Restoration ecology.
Climatic changes
Global environmental change
Human beings
Restoration ecology
Environmental ethics
Environmental justice
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Meteorology & Climatology