CFP: Theme Issue Moral Philosophy & Politics: Justice and Natural Resources. Intergenerational and Global Dimensions

Editors: Lukas H. Meyer, Pranay Sanklecha and Alexa Zellentin

Through their use of natural resources, presently living people will affect
the conditions under which future people will live. This raises questions of
intergenerational as well as global justice: What do presently living people
owe future generations, in particular, which natural resources, with the
policy options they allow, should remain available to future generations
(and to what extent)? Who among the presently living should bear what costs
of fulfilling the duties towards future generations? Further, it is
particularly the industrialized countries of the global North who have
caused the problem of climate change, in part because of the fact that the
process of industrialization came with increasing levels of emissions. At
the same time, the harmful effects of climate change will be felt
disproportionately by developing countries (particularly those in the global
South), who have benefited far less from industrialization. Do OECD
countries and their citizens therefore stand under special duties towards
the victims of climate change in the global South?

Deadline for submission: September 15, 2014

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