- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Adapting Humanity
-
I Adapting Restoration to Climate Change -
1 Nature Restoration as a Paradigm for the Human Relationship with Nature -
2 Environmental Virtues and the Aims of Restoration -
3 Global Warming and Virtues of Ecological Restoration -
4 History, Novelty, and Virtue in Ecological Restoration -
II Integrating Ecology into the Virtue of Justice -
5 The Death of Restoration? -
6 Animal Flourishing and Capabilities in an Era of Global Change -
7 Environment as Meta-capability: Why a Dignified Human Life Requires a Stable Climate System -
8 Justice, Ecological Integrity, and Climate Change -
III Adjusting Character to a Changing Environment -
9 Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming -
10 The Virtue of Responsibility for the Global Climate -
11 Rethinking Greed -
12 Are We the Scum of the Earth? Climate Change, Geoengineering, and Humanity’s Challenge -
IV Reorganizing Institutions to Enable Human Virtue -
13 The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Caused by Us -
14 Human Values and Institutional Responses to Climate Change -
15 Alienation and the Commons -
16 Thinking like a Planet - About the Contributors
- Index
Human Values and Institutional Responses to Climate Change
Human Values and Institutional Responses to Climate Change
- Chapter:
- (p.281) 14 Human Values and Institutional Responses to Climate Change
- Source:
- Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change
- Author(s):
Kenneth Shockley
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter focuses on human values and institutional responses to problems associated with climate change. It describes the role of institutions in environmental policy and explores the problems associated with designing institutions as agents of adaptive management.
Keywords: human values, institutional responses, climate change, institutions, environmental policy, adaptive management
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Adapting Humanity
-
I Adapting Restoration to Climate Change -
1 Nature Restoration as a Paradigm for the Human Relationship with Nature -
2 Environmental Virtues and the Aims of Restoration -
3 Global Warming and Virtues of Ecological Restoration -
4 History, Novelty, and Virtue in Ecological Restoration -
II Integrating Ecology into the Virtue of Justice -
5 The Death of Restoration? -
6 Animal Flourishing and Capabilities in an Era of Global Change -
7 Environment as Meta-capability: Why a Dignified Human Life Requires a Stable Climate System -
8 Justice, Ecological Integrity, and Climate Change -
III Adjusting Character to a Changing Environment -
9 Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming -
10 The Virtue of Responsibility for the Global Climate -
11 Rethinking Greed -
12 Are We the Scum of the Earth? Climate Change, Geoengineering, and Humanity’s Challenge -
IV Reorganizing Institutions to Enable Human Virtue -
13 The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Caused by Us -
14 Human Values and Institutional Responses to Climate Change -
15 Alienation and the Commons -
16 Thinking like a Planet - About the Contributors
- Index
