Description: This is a respectfully used hardback book in GOOD CONDITION—from a smoke-free environment. The photo you see is of the actual item you will receive. Please feel free to ask any questions you have about this listing. A THEORY OF INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE – by Joerg Chet Tremmel. The appeal to 'our obligations to future generations' is one of the most forceful, emotional and effective arguments available to politicians and citizens and is the cornerstone of all modern policies aimed at sustainable development. Yet, the exact nature and extent of these obligations are unclear - who owes what to whom, exactly, and why? This highly accessible book provides an extensive and comprehensive overview of current research and theory about why and how we should protect future generations. It exposes how and why the interests of people today and those of future generations are often in conflict and what can be done. It rebuts critical concepts such as Parfits' 'non-identity' paradox and Beckerman's denial of any possibility of intergenerational justice. The core of the book is the lucid application of a 'veil of ignorance' to derive principles of intergenerational justice which show that our duties to posterity are stronger than is often supposed. Tremmel's approach demands that each generation both consider and improve the well-being of future generations. To measure the well-being of future generations Tremmel employs the Human Development Index rather than the metrics of utilitarian subjective happiness. The book thus answers in detailed, concrete terms the two most important questions of every theory of intergenerational justice: 'what to sustain' and 'how much to sustain?' Ultimately this book provides a theory of intergenerational justice that is both intellectually robust and practical with wide applicability to law, policy, economics, climate change and all other contexts that affect future generations. Published by Earthscan - ©2009, stated as First published by Earthscan by the UK and USA in 2009 – ISBN 978-1-84407-826-4 – 264 -ages – the book measures approx. 6 ½ x 9 ½. The book is in good condition; light reading wear; binding tight; pages clean and crisp--no writing, no underlining, no highlighting; no jacket; normal shelf wear. Nice, tight, clean, crisp copy. WE PRIDE OURSELVES ON OUR PACKING. G&M stock #2fe(gtown21)
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