Climate Change and Individual Responsibility: Agency, Moral Disengagement and the Motivational Gap - Hardcover

Peeters, Wouter; Smet, A. De; Diependaele, L.; Sterckx, S.

 
9781137464491: Climate Change and Individual Responsibility: Agency, Moral Disengagement and the Motivational Gap
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1137464496 ISBN 13: 9781137464491
Verlag: Palgrave Pivot, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

This book discusses the agency and responsibility of individuals in climate change, and argues that these are underemphasized, enabling individuals to maintain their consumptive lifestyles without having to accept moral responsibility for their luxury emissions.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Wouter Peeters is a researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. His research focuses on the challenges to our conceptions of freedoms and responsibilities that are posed by climate change and environmental sustainability.

Andries De Smet is Junior Research Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders at Ghent University. His research interests include cosmopolitanism and questions of responsibility regarding climate change and global justice.

Lisa Diependaele is a researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. She studies global ethics in international economic governance.

Sigrid Sterckx is Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at Ghent University, Belgium. Her current research focuses on: climate ethics and governance; medical decisions at the end of life; human tissue research; organ transplantation; neuroethics; and patent law. She has authored and co-authored more than 100 books, book chapters and journal articles on these topics and serves on various advisory boards and commissions, including the Belgian Advisory Committee on Bioethics.

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Verlag
Palgrave Pivot
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1137464496
ISBN 13 
9781137464491
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
162
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