Environmental justice, biodiversity and environmental sustainability -- Principles of environmental justice, global ecological footprint and biodiversity -- Population and the debate on ecological deficit -- Consumerism and the debate on ecological deficit -- Redistribution of resources and ecological deficit -- Global warming and climate change -- The UNFCCC and climate change -- The three obligations in the UNFCCC and climate change -- Beneficence and justice in the UNFCCC's three obligations -- The obligations of beneficence and justice in the UNFCCC -- Some problems for the UNFCCC and the obligations -- The tragedy of the commons and climate change -- Alternate solution to the tragedy of the commons for climate change -- Non-Western perspectives on the environment : Judeo-Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism -- Non-Western perspectives on the environment : Native American and African worldviews.
Summary:
"The book examines issues in environmental justice, as part of the broader discourse on environmental ethics. Its focuses on issues relating to consumption, environmental problems, global warming and climate change"-- Provided by publisher.
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