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Page, Edward (1999) Intergenerational justice and climate change. Political Studies, Vol.47 (No.1). pp. 53-66. doi:10.1111/1467-9248.00187 ISSN 0032-3217.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.00187
Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Intergenerational relations, Climactic changes -- Economic aspects, Resource allocation, Distributive justice, Welfare economics | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Political Studies | ||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0032-3217 | ||||
Official Date: | March 1999 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.47 | ||||
Number: | No.1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 53-66 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1111/1467-9248.00187 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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