Global Justice, Natural Resources, and Climate Change

Global Justice, Natural Resources, and Climate Change

by Megan Blomfield
Global Justice, Natural Resources, and Climate Change

Global Justice, Natural Resources, and Climate Change

by Megan Blomfield

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Overview

To address climate change fairly, many conflicting claims over natural resources must be balanced against one another. This has long been obvious in the case of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas sinks including the atmosphere and forests; but it is ever more apparent that responses to climate change also threaten to spur new competition over land and extractive resources. This makes climate change an instance of a broader, more enduring and - for many - all too familiar problem: the problem of human conflict over how the natural world should be cared for, protected, shared, used, and managed.

This work develops a new theory of global egalitarianism concerning natural resources, rejecting both permanent sovereignty and equal division, which is then used to examine the problem of climate change. It formulates principles of resource right designed to protect the ability of all human beings to satisfy their basic needs as members of self-determining political communities, where it is understood that the genuine exercise of collective self-determination is not possible from a position of significant disadvantage in global wealth and power relations. These principles are used to address the question of where to set the ceiling on future greenhouse gas emissions and how to share the resulting emissions budget, in the face of conflicting claims to fossil fuels, climate sinks, and land. It is also used to defend an unorthodox understanding of responsibility for climate change as a problem of global justice, based on its provenance in historical injustice concerning natural resources.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198791737
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 07/16/2019
Pages: 262
Product dimensions: 9.60(w) x 6.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Megan Blomfield, Lecturer in Political Philosophy, University of Sheffield

Megan Blomfield is a Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Her work concerns global justice and the environment, focusing on the political philosophy of climate change. She has published in leading scholarly journals including the Journal of Political Philosophy and Res Publica.

Table of Contents

Section I: Climate Justice1. Introduction2. Sharing the Global Emissions BudgetSection II: Natural Resource Justice3. Global Justice and Natural Resources4. Against Equal Division of Natural Resources5. Contractualist Common Ownership and the Basic Needs Principle6. Collective Self-Determination without Resource Sovereignty7. Limited Territorial Jurisdication Over Natural ResourcesSection III: Natural Resources and Climate Justice8. Revisiting the Global Emissions Budget9. Historical Emissions Debt10. The Significance of Historical Injustice Concerning Natural Resources11. Conclusion
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