Papaux / Zurbuchen Philosophy, Law and Environmental Crisis / Philosophie, droit et crise environnementale

Workshop of the Swiss Society for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, September 12–13, 2014, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne / Congrès de l'Association Suisse de Philosophie du Droit et de Philosophie Sociale, 12–13 septembre 2014
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-515-11388-5
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Deutsch, Band 149, 153 Seiten

Reihe: Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie – Beihefte

Climate change belongs to the most pressing environmental problems we are facing today. Despite the agreement reached by the 2015 United Nations Climate Conference, this problem will remain on top of the political agenda during many years to come. This volume presents the proceedings of the workshop held at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne, in 2014. The main objective was to engage a dialogue between philosophers and lawyers on three intricate questions related to the environmental crisis: first, what is the very nature of this crisis? In what way does it confront human beings to the limits of the biosphere, and to their own finitude? Second, how should we conceive of responsibility towards future generations from a legal as well as from a moral point of view? Third, how to interpret the principle of common but differentiated responsibility, which plays a key role in environmental law and ethics? How to apply criteria such as the ‘polluter pays’, the ‘ability to pay’, or the ‘beneficiary pays’ principle in the face of empirical data of CO2 emissions in various countries and with a view on mitigation and adaptation?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Papaux, Alain

Zurbuchen, Simone

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltsoziologie, Umweltpsychologie, Umweltethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;Acknowledgements;8
3;IntroductIon;10
4;La crise environnementale ou la modernité retournée contre elle-même: et si homo sapiens n’était que faber?;18
5;Responsabilité à l’égard des générations futures et justice intergénérationnelle;48
6;Nouvelles questions de justice climatique;62
7;Intergenerational equity: an aspiration or an effective weapon?;70
8;Common but differentiated responsibilities against the realities of climate change;80
9;Climate Adaptation and Theories of Justice;98
10;Differentiating Responsibilities for Climate Change Adaptation;120
11;Attaining Differentiated Responsibility: The Hard Life of Governmental Command in Fighting Ecological Ruin and the Triumph of Customary Law & General Principles of Law;134

Über Autor(innen)

Zurbuchen, Simone
Simone Zurbuchen is ordinary professor of early modern, modern and contemporary philosophy at the University of Lausanne. Having obtained her PhD and her habilitation at the University of Zurich, she was a member of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Ethics and Human Rights at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) before taking up her current position in 2012. Her areas of specialization are early modern history of political philosophy and philosophy of law and contemporary political philosophy.

Papaux, Alain
Alain Papaux is ordinary professor of philosophy of law, legal methodology and philosophy of environmental law at the University of Lausanne Law Faculty and Geosciences and Environment Faculty. He obtained his master of law at Lausanne, his master of philosophy at Geneva, his master of philosophy of law at Brussels (St-Louis) and his PhD at the University of Lausanne and held positions at the European Academy of Legal Theory, Brussels, before returning to Lausanne in 2003. His areas of specialization are the philosophy of environmental law and juridical methodology.