Ethics of Climate Security and Disaster Planning

A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2018) | Viewed by 167

Special Issue Editor

Department of Politics and International Studies, The University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
Interests: ethics; political philosophy; climate change ethics; ethics of international development; cyberethics; global catastrophic risk; empathy; equality; responsibility; consent; fairness; risk; justice

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Social Sciences aims to bring together research from across the social sciences to address central challenges of ethics, justice and fairness in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation efforts. The analysis of how risks and responsibilities should be distributed informs wider discussions about how risk governance can be transformed according to normative ideals, how existing forms of governance compare, and how responsibility for financing should be shared to achieve equity, efficiency and additionality. Questions relevant to this research agenda include, but are not limited to:

  • What does justice require as the end goal of risk reduction efforts? Do the requirements of justice cohere with the requirements of efficiency and additionality? How might theories of justice better inform theories of resilience and transformation?
  • How can limited funding be distributed justly, and who should bear the costs? Can universal principles govern funding criteria for different groups—should low-income groups bear less responsibility than vulnerable high-income groups, for example?
  • How do normative criteria compare with analysis of how risks and responsibilities are being distributed in real-world programming? What role is there for ethical principles in programme design, monitoring and evaluation?
  • What role can and should normative principles play in international negotiations and legal frameworks? In addition to Sendai and adaptation processes at the UNFCCC, what do normative debates imply for the question of legal liabilities for loss and damage?
Dr. Keith Hyams
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • resilience
  • adaptation to climate change
  • ethics
  • justice
  • fairness
  • disasters
  • risk
  • responsibilities
  • loss and damage
  • Sendai
  • UNFCCC
  • adaptation financing

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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