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Description: Fair Weather is a unique, cross-disciplinary assessment of fairness and equity issues in the context of global climate change – a crucial dimension in current international negotiations – written by a collection of leading scientists in economics, sociology and social psychology, ethics, international law and political science.
How should responsibility for adapting to climate change be distributed? Who should bear the costs of mitigating its impacts and how should these costs be measured? Answers to these questions differ, often according to the vulnerability, wealth and level of industrial development of the country.
Finding a fair solution is controversial, but crucial to the complex and vital negotiations over global warming. This illuminating and accessible volume explores the policy dimensions and analytical needs of the negotiation process. It is essential reading for policy makers and students and teachers of economics, sociology and social psychology, ethics, international relations, law and political science.
Contents: Fairness Concerns in Climate Change • Equity Issues and Integrated Assessment • Climate Change and Multiple Views of Fairness • Empirical and Ethical Arguments in Climate Change Impact Valuation and Aggregation • Applying Fairness Criteria to the Allocation of Climate Protection Burdens: An Economic Perspective • The Appropriateness of Economic Approaches to the Analysis of Burden-Sharing • Biases in Allocating Obligations for Climate Protection: Implications from Social Judgement Research in Psychology • Fairness and Local Environmental Concerns in Climate Policy • Justice, Equity and Efficiency in Climate Change: A Developing Country Perspective • Justice in the Greenhouse: Perspectives from International Law • Equity in International Law • The Regulation of Greenhouse Gases: Does Fairness Matter?ISBN - 9781853835575
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Pages : 224
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