What are our obligations towards future generations who stand to be harmed by the impact of today's environmental crises? This book explores ecological sustainability as a human rights issue and examines what our long-term responsibilities might be.

This interdisciplinary collection of chapters provides a basis for understanding the debateson the provision of sustainability for future generations from a diverse set of theoretical standpoints. Covering a broad range of perspectives such as risk and uncertainty, legal implementation, representation, motivation and economics, Towards the Ethics of a Green Future sets out the key questions involved in this complex ethical issue. The contributors bring theoretical discussions to life through the use of case studies and real-world examples. The book also includes clear and tangible recommendations for policymakers on how to put the suggestions proposed within the book into practice.

This book will be of great interest to all researchers and students concerned with issues of sustainability and human rights, as well as scholars of environmental politics, law and ethics more generally.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2018

ISBN

9781351631648

Edition

Topic

Économie

Subtopic

Développement durable

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
1. Introduction
2. Why ‘rights’ of future people?
3. Risk and rights: how to deal with risks from a rights-based perspective
4. Looking into the future: finding suitable models and scenarios
5. Pathways for future generations in existing legal human rights provisions
6. Political representation of future generations
7. Intergenerational justice in the context of developing countries
8. Climate economics and future generations
9. Motivational aspects of a politics of sustainability
10. Governance towards a green future
11. Ethics of a green future: a research agenda
Index
Political bodies, agreements and legal documents