| DOI: | 10.1002/wcc.153
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| Scopus记录号: | 2-s2.0-84856359957
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| 论文题名: | Climate ethics and population policy |
| 作者: | Cafaro P
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| 刊名: | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
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| ISSN: | 17577780
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| 出版年: | 2012
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| 卷: | 3, 期:1 | | 起始页码: | 45
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| 结束页码: | 61
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 英文关键词: | Cost effectiveness
; Decision making
; Gas emissions
; Greenhouse gases
; Philosophical aspects
; Population statistics
; Climate change mitigation
; Economic development
; Global climate changes
; Human population growth
; Intergovernmental panel on climate changes
; Population control
; Population growth
; Scientific literature
; Climate change
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| 英文摘要: | According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, human population growth is one of the two primary causes of increased greenhouse gas emissions and accelerating global climate change. Slowing or ending population growth could be a cost effective, environmentally advantageous means to mitigate climate change, providing important benefits to both human and natural communities. Yet population policy has attracted relatively little attention from ethicists, policy analysts, or policy makers dealing with this issue. In part, this is because addressing population matters means wading into a host of contentious ethical issues, including family planning, abortion, and immigration. This article reviews the scientific literature regarding voluntary population control's potential contribution to climate change mitigation. It considers possible reasons for the failure of climate ethicists, analysts, and policy makers to adequately assess that contribution or implement policies that take advantage of it, with particular reference to the resistance to accepting limits to growth. It explores some of the ethical issues at stake, considering arguments for and against noncoercive population control and asking whether coercive population policies are ever morally justified. It also argues that three consensus positions in the climate ethics literature regarding acceptable levels of risk, unacceptable harms, and a putative right to economic development, necessarily imply support for voluntary population control. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| 资源类型: | 期刊论文
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76434
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| Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性
气候变化与战略
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作者单位: | Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
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Cafaro P. Climate ethics and population policy[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2012-01-01,3(1)
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