The ethical underpinnings of climate economics / edited by Adrian Walsh, Sade Hormio and Duncan Purves. - 1 online resource - Routledge advances in climate change research . - Routledge advances in climate change research. .

1. Introduction / Adrian Walsh, Sade Hormio and Duncan Purves -- 2. Do not ask for morality / John Broome -- 3. The ethics of discounting : an introduction / Marc D. Davidson -- 4. Climate change, intergenerational equity, and the social discount rate / Simon Caney -- 5. When utility maximization is not enough : intergenerational sufficientarianism and the economics of climate change / Simo Kyllonen and Alessandra Basso -- 6. A new defence of probability discounting / Kian Mintz-Woo -- 7. Climate change mitigation, sustainability and non-substitutability / Sade Hormio -- 8. Dimensions of climate disadvantage / John O'Neill -- 9. Moral asymmetries in economic evaluations of climate change : the challenge of assessing diverse effects / Blake B. Francis -- 10. The ethical failures of climate economics / Clive L. Spash and Clemens Gattringer -- 11. A Lockean approach to greenhouse gas emission rights / Hans-Peter Weikard -- 12. Climate change policy, economic analysis and price-independent conceptions of ultimate value / Adrian Walsh.

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Climatic changes--Social aspects.
Carbon offsetting.
Emissions trading.

QC903 / .E835 2017

174.4 / E842
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