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Political Responsibility for Climate Change: Ethical Institutions and Fact-Sensitive Theory

Political Responsibility for Climate Change: Ethical Institutions and Fact-Sensitive Theory

Scavenius, Theresa

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research

Environmental StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0367189704
ISBN13: 9780367189709
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 13 2019
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

This book offers new perspectives on how social and political institutions can respond more effectively to climate change.

Theresa Scavenius presents a concept of moral responsibility that does not address the obligations of individual citizens, but instead assesses the moral responsibility of institutionalised actors, such as governments, parliaments, and other governmental agencies. This focus on political responsibility is something that up until now has largely been neglected by moral theory, but Scavenius argues in this book that accountability must be assigned to institutionalised group agents. With this new research, she outlines building blocks for a new agenda of climate studies by offering an innovative approach to climate governance and democratic climate action at a time when many political initiatives have failed and crucially outlines the necessity of approaching moral dilemmas from a fact sensitive political theoretical approach.

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