Department Member, Philosophy and Moral Sciences
Vakgroep Wijsbegeerte en Moraalwetenschappen
Thesis Title: Towards a neo-ecological ethic of solidarity: an analysis of the participatory and distributive dimensions of intragenerational and intergenerational climate justice.
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prof. dr. Sigrid Sterckx
prof. dr. Johan Stuy |
About
In view of the relation between historical responsibility and the vulnerability of the poor for global climate change, the integration of an intra- and intergenerational aspect in a theory on climate justice is primordial.
The emphasis on intragenerational (i.e. spatial) distribution – dominant in both the political discourse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Copenhagen Agreement as in the theoretical discourse – should not leave the intragenerational participatory nor the intergenerational aspect aside. This research will attempt to construct an opinion on climate justice that will include a participatory and a distributive dimension.
In the first phase the research will conduct an inquiry into the specific participatory and distributive matters inherent to an inter- and intragenerational aspect of climate justice. The findings will result in a second phase, which will lead to the construction of a uniting ethical perspective on climate justice and a neo-ecological perspective on distributive justice.
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