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Joerg Chet Tremmel - Handbook of Intergenerational Justice, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

Handbook of Intergenerational Justice

Av Joerg Chet Tremmel

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This Handbook provides a detailed overview of various issues related to intergenerational justice. Comprising articles written by a distinguished group of scholars from the international scientific community, the Handbook is divided into two main thematic sections - foundations and definitions of intergenerational justice and institutionalization of intergenerational justice.The first part clarifies basic terms and traces back the origins of the idea of intergenerational justice. It also focuses on the problem of intergenerational buck-passing in the ecological context; for example in relation to nuclear waste and the greenhouse effect. At the same time, it also sheds light on the relationship between intergenerational justice and economics, addressing issues such as public debt and financial sustainability. The innovative second part of the volume highlights how posterity can be institutionally protected, such as by inserting relevant clauses into national constitutions. Reading this volume is the best way to gain an overall knowledge of intergenerational justice - an extremely salient and topical issue of our time.The Handbook is an important contribution to the literature and will be of great interest to academics and graduate students as well as readers interested in wider human rights issues.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2006-09-27
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Förlag: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781845429003
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Edited by Joerg Chet Tremmel, Scientific Director, Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations, Germany

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'The contributors to this volume undertake to establish the foundations and definitions of "intergenerational justice" and to explore its capacity to guide us in policy and public opinion judgments we must make to face unprecedented issues. . . We are changing the biosphere and using resources to an extent never contemplated in the history of ethics. Deterioration of our oceans, loss of topsoil, insecurity about potable water supplies, the ozone hole, global warming, and the question about how to handle high-level nuclear waste which remains lethal perhaps 400,000 years from now, are some examples whose consequences reach far beyond inherited principles and policies of responsibility to others. This Handbook works to open a path for debate, extension of our tradition and invention of new thinking on these issues.'

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