Future as Fairness: Ecological Justice and Global CitizenshipAnne K. Haugestad, J. D. Wulfhorst Rodopi, 2004 - 261 Seiten Twenty years after the establishment of the World Commission on Environment and Development, the 13 contributions in this interdisciplinary volume offer a broad spectrum of perspectives and research-based recommendations on environmental sustainability, social justice and the human enterprise. The cases explored cover global citizenly rights and obligations, environmental health, ecological building practices, tradable fuel permits, forestry and illegal logging, local waste management, employment and risk assessments, the genetic modification debate, nuclear and toxic waste, global environmental governance and 500 years of globalization. |
Inhalt
Tribal Sovereignty | 47 |
Public Perceptions | 63 |
GM Scientists and the Politics of the Risk | 85 |
A Critical Analysis | 105 |
Law Technology | 183 |
Household | 201 |
Norwegians as Global Neighbours | 217 |
Notes on Contributors | 257 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action activity allocation analysis areas attractors Basel Convention behavior Bosnia and Herzegovina building built environment central challenges chapter citizenly complex consumers consumption costs culture debate distribution Dunlap Earth Charter eco-home ecological citizenship ecological footprint economic emissions energy enforcement environmental concern environmental health environmental justice environmental problems environmental risks ethical forest fuel future garbage global citizens global citizenship global environmental governance globalisation Goshute Grangemouth Green Political greenhouse gas hazardous human illegal logging impact implementation industry institutional interviews issues landfill London natural obligations OECD participation permits petrochemical political pollution potential production reduce relationship residents responsibility safety Science scientists sector Skull Valley social society solid waste solutions stakeholders sustainable development Tajikistan TFP system theory timber toxic waste tradable trade tribal tribes Turkmenistan University vapour barriers variables waste management
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 8 - global' facilitates this skewed view of a common future. The construction of the global environment narrows the South's options, while increasing the North's. Through its global reach, the North exists in the South, but the South exists only within itself, since it has no global reach. Thus the South can only exist locally, while only the North exists globally.