Fair future
Subtitle: resource conflicts and global justice
By: Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy ; translated by Patrick Camiller.
Contributors: Camiller, Patrick.; Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt und Energie.
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.; Zed Books; Fernwood; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillian
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London, UK; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781842777299; 9781842777282
Subjects: Natural resources -- Management; Natural resources -- Government policy; Anti-globalization movement
Other titles: Resource conflicts and global justice
Notes: Translated from German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Justice for realists; title: Interconnected world; title: The new vulnerability; title: Levels of interdependence; title: Preventive justice; title: Divided world; title: The gap between nations; title: Internal inequality; title: Drift of world poverty; title: Finite world; title: What are limits?; title: Warning signs of overload; title: Justice in an age of limits; title: Threefold ecological justice; title: The dilemma of catching up; title: Inequality in the environment; title: The triad of omnivores; title: Geographical distribution of resources; title: Appropriation between north and south; title: Distribution of damage; title: Unequal ecological exchange; title: The triad and its 'colonies'; title: Ecological trade balance; title: The post-industrial illusion; title: Resource claims of rising economies; title: The new consumer countries; title: 'Global cities' and their hinterland; title: The transnational consumer class; title: Arenas of appropriation; title: Geopolitics: the hands on the oil; title: Spheres of influence; title: Peak oil; title: More demand, fewer suppliers; title: Exit from oil as security policy; title: Foreign trade: the appropriation of land; title: Food first or exports first; title: Marginalization of farmers and land; title: Who gains from rural exodus?; title: A caricature of free trade; title: Investment: the monopolization of water; title: Trapped water; title: Virtual water; title: Contaminated water; title: Lucrative water; title: International law: patents on plants; title: The rise of biopiracy; title: Whose knowledge?; title: Forum shifting; title: Bilaterals as a gateway; title: Models of resource justice; title: Ethics and distance; title: Interest in security; title: Interest in self-respect; title: Interest in world citizenship; title: Recognition and distribution; title: Justice as recognition; title: Justice as distribution; title: Securing livelihood rights; title: Habitats and human rights; title: Human rights, human duties; title: Cutting back resource claims; title: Egalitarianism as the exception; title: Survival before prosperity; title: Freedom before overconsumption; title: Shaping fair exchange; title: Value created and creamed off; title: Learning from fair trade; title: Compensating for disadvantages; title: Common but differentiated responsibilities; title: Ecological debt; title: Fair wealth; title: Contraction and convergence; title: Equality - at what level?; title: Well-being and resource consumption; title: Cutting back on high consumption; title: The trio of efficiency, consistency and sufficiency; title: The example of energy; title: The example of transport; title: The leap forward in the South; title: Decentralized electricity generation; title: Mobility without car dependence; title: Regenerative agriculture; title: Financial institutions as facilitators of leapfrogging?; title: Agreements for fairness and ecology; title: Equity in the greenhouse; title: Molecules and human rights; title: User rights to the atmosphere; title: Fairness and diversity; title: Sovereignty as protection; title: Rights of local communities; title: Fair trade instead of free trade; title: Development rights before market access; title: Human rights before market access; title: Environmental rights before market access; title: Approaches to a reinvention of the WTO; title: Rights for enterprises; title: Beyond the yearly balance-sheet; title: How much can voluntary standards achieve?; title: Responsibility for the world society; title: What is Europe worth?; title: Make law not war; title: Kyoto - and what else?; title: Farewell to Marrakesh; title: Alliances for a fair future; title: Bibliography.