The Routledge Handbook of Applied Climate Change Ethics

Donald A. Brown is Scholar in Residence for Sustainability Ethics and Law at Widener University Commonwealth Law School in Harrisburg, USA. He has taught or lectured on climate change ethical/policy issues in 38 countries approximately 80 times. He also manages the award-winning website ethicsandclimate.org which contains over 200 articles and videos on climate ethics. Kathryn Gwiazdon is Professor of Public International Law, Climate Change Law and Policy, and Human Rights Law at the Northern Illinois University College of Law, USA. She is also the Executive Director of the Center for Environmental Ethics and Law, as well as Chair of the Ethics Specialist Group of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law. Laura Westra is Professor Emeritus from the Department of Philosophy at University of Windsor in Windsor, Canada. She is also Founder and Director of Global Ecological Integrity Group, a research group dedicated to pushing the boundaries of scholarly endeavor through inter- and trans-disciplinary engagement on matters affecting and governing the sustainability of life for both present and future generations.

Part I: Ethical Issues that Arise in Governments’ Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Policy Formations Part II: Ethical Issues that Arise from the Responsibility to Respond to Unavoidable Climate Change Harms Part III: Ethical Issues Raised by Arguments Frequently Made in Opposition to Climate Change Policies Part IV: Ethical Issues Raised by Various Policy Responses to Climate Change Part V: A Way Forward: Strategies to Expressly Consider Ethics in Climate Change Policy Formation