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Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection - Softcover

Shue, Henry

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9780198778745: Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection
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ISBN 10: 0198778740 ISBN 13: 9780198778745
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Climate change is the most difficult threat facing humanity this century and negotiations to reach international agreement have so far foundered on deep issues of justice. Providing provocative and imaginative answers to key questions of justice, informed by political insight and scientific understanding, this book offers a new way forward.

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About the Author

Henry Shue is best known for his 1980 book, Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy (Princeton; 2nd ed., 1996) and his articles, "Torture" (1978) and "Mediating Duties" (1988), he has taught at the University of North Carolina, Wellesley College, University of Maryland, Cornell University, and Oxford. After initial research on human rights, especially economic rights, he has during recent decades concentrated on practical philosophy concerning war, on which he edited Nuclear Deterrence and Moral Constraint (Cambridge, 1989), Preemption (Oxford, 2007), Just and Unjust Warriors (Oxford, 2008), and The American Way of Bombing (forthcoming).

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198778740
ISBN 13 
9780198778745
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
366
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