Climate Change and Liberal Priorities

Catriona McKinnon is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Reading. She is the author of Liberalism and the Defence of Political Constructivism (2002), Toleration: A Critical Introduction (2006), and Climate Change and Future Justice: Precaution, Compensation and Triage (2011). She has published widely on liberal theory, toleration, equality, and issues in applied political theory, and is currently working on liberal approaches to climate change justice. Gideon Calder is Reader in Ethics and Social Philosophy at the University of Wales, Newport. He has written two books on Richard Rorty’s philosophy, and is co-editor of Liberalism and Social Justice (2000), Citizenship Acquisition and National Belonging (2009), Diversity in Europe: Dilemmas of Differential Treatment in Theory and Practice (2011), and the forthcoming 'Changing Directions of the British Welfare State'. He is currently writing a book on democracy.

1. Introduction: Climate change and liberal priorities Gideon Calder and Catriona McKinnon 2. Does anthropogenic climate change violate human rights? Derek Bell 3. Rawls and climate change: does Rawlsian political philosophy pass the global test? Stephen M. Gardiner 4. Climate change and normativity: constructivism versus realism Gideon Calder 5. Climate change, collective harm and legitimate coercion Elizabeth Cripps 6. Climate change justice: getting motivated in the last chance saloon Catriona McKinnon 7. Disowning the weather Simon Hailwood 8. The anthropocentric advantage? Environmental ethics and climate change policy Nicole Hassoun 9. Cashing in on climate change: political theory and global emissions trading Edward A. Page