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| ISBN: | 9786612453847
6612453842
9048508347
9789048508341
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| Notes: | The work was "financed by the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in the context of the programme Ethics, Research & Public Policy, and the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM)."
Originally presented as the author's Ph.D Thesis from the University of Amsterdam.
Includes bibliographical references.
English.
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| Summary: | Intergenerational justice requires that climate risks to future generations be handled with the same reasonable care deemed acceptable by society in the case of risks to contemporaries. Such general standards of conduct are laid down in tort law, for example. Consequently, the validity of arguments for or against more stringent climate policy can be judged by comparison to the general standards of conduct applying in the case of risk to contemporaries. That this consistency test is able to disqualify certain arguments in the climate debate is illustrated by a further investigation of the debat.
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| Other form: | 90-5629-553-5
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