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Canned Heat

Ethics and Politics of Global Climate Change

Marcello Di Paola editor Gianfranco Pellegrino editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:26th Jun '14

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Climate change is a key challenge in the contemporary world. This volume studies climate change through many lenses: politics, law, ethics, philosophy, religion, and contemporary art and culture. The essays explore alternatives for sustainable development and highlight oft-overlooked issues, such as climate change refugees and food justice. Designed as four parts, the volume: first, offers an astute diagnosis of the political and moral intricacies of climate change; second, deals specifically with topics in the political theory of climate change governance; third, focuses on the moral theory of climate change; and, finally, analyzes the specific ramifications of the climate change problem.

With contributions from experts across the world, this will be especially useful to scholars and students of climate change studies, development studies, environmental studies, politics, and ethics and philosophy. It will also interest policy-makers, social activists, governmental and non-governmental agencies, and those in media and journalism.

"This wide-ranging and engaging collection probes a number of the important political, ethical, and cultural dimensions of climate change, shining a helpful light on the maladies it finds and providing numerous provocative hints of the treatments required. [A]n important read at a critical time."

-Christopher Preston, Department of Philosophy, University of Montana

"This is a fine collection, which carefully delineates many of the major approaches to the ethics, politics and philosophy of global climate change. With fourteen substantive chapters, Di Paola and Pellegrino’s collection, Canned Heat, provides a useful overview for both the layperson and the scholar; viewing climate change from a multitude of perspectives, including that of the refugee, the democratic government, even the Buddhist philosopher."

-Philip Kirby, University of Exeter

Environmental Values 24.6 831-832

ISBN: 9781138020276

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 408g

256 pages