scholarly journals In a broken world: Towards an ethics of repair in the Anthropocene

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan P McLaren
Keyword(s):  
Moral Hazard ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Historic Buildings ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Earth Systems ◽  
Five Disciplines ◽  
Climate Responses ◽  
Pragmatic Ethics

With the power to break Earth Systems comes responsibility to care for them, and arguably to repair them. Climate geoengineering is one possible approach. But repair is under-researched and underspecified in this context. In a first attempt to establish basic principles for the obligations of repair in the Anthropocene, five disciplines of repair are briefly reviewed: reconstruction of historic buildings; remediation of human bodies; restoration of ecosystems; reconfiguration of cultural materials and artifacts; and reconciliation of broken relationships. In each case ethical practices and debates are described to help identify key themes and challenges in understanding repair. Three interlinked pragmatic ethics or virtues of repair in the Anthropocene are suggested: care, integrity, and legibility. Implications for climate geoengineering, climate politics, and the possibilities of climate justice are explored. Climate repair is defended against objections that it would exacerbate a moral hazard effect, or frame climate responses as politically conservative.

Die Bewegung für Klimagerechtigkeit und Energiedemokratie in Deutschland.

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (184) ◽  
pp. 403-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Sander
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Movement Analysis ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Historical Materialist

This article argues that social movement research must be renewed by a historical-materialist perspective to be able to understand the emergence and effects of the relatively new climate justice movement in Germany. The previous research on NGOs and social movements in climate politics is presented and the recent development of the climate justice movement in Germany is illustrated. In a final step two cases of climate movement campaigns are explained by means of the historical-materialist movement analysis proposed by the author.

Applications of Seismic Isolation Retrofitting in Historic Buildings

2015 ◽  
Vol 723 ◽  
pp. 358-363
Author(s):  
Ru Yin ◽  
Yong Zhan Chen ◽  
Zhong Fan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Isolation ◽  
Seismic Retrofitting ◽  
Historic Buildings ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Conventional Methods ◽  
At Home

Compared with conventional methods of seismic retrofitting, seismic isolation is not only more economical, but also can preserve the original appearance of historic buildings. Therefore, this method is more suitable for retrofitting of historic buildings. This paper briefly introduces the basic principles of seismic isolation retrofitting and some application examples at home and abroad. Besides, this paper summarizes some issues that should be paid attention to in seismic isolation retrofitting.

scholarly journals Climate Politics and Race in the Pacific Northwest

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Slocum
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
The United States ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Racial Capitalism ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Global North

The collective politics of climate justice makes the important claim that lowering emissions is not enough; society must also undertake radical transformation to address both the climate and inequality crises. Owing to its roots in the environmental justice movement, addressing systemic racism is central to climate justice praxis in the United States, which is a necessary intervention in typically technocratic climate politics. What emerges from US climate justice is a moral appeal to ‘relationship’ as politics, the procedural demand that communities of color (the ‘frontline’) lead the movement, and a distributive claim on carbon pricing revenue. However, this praxis precludes a critique of racial capitalism, the process that relies on structural racism to enhance accumulation, alienating, exploiting, and immiserating black, brown, and white, while carrying out ecocide. The lack of an analysis of how class and race produce the crises climate justice confronts prevents the movement from demanding that global north fossil fuel abolition occur in tandem with the reassertion of the public over the private and de-growth. Drawing on research conducted primarily in Oregon and Washington, I argue that race works to both create and limit the transformative possibilities of climate politics.

scholarly journals Financing climate justice in the European Union and China: common mechanisms, different perspectives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Minas
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
European Union ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Transnational Activism ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
First Case ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
The Eu

AbstractClimate justice is a concept with many different and competing interpretations. It has salience at intra-country, inter-country and intergenerational levels of climate politics. While inter-country climate justice has long been on the agenda of United Nations climate negotiations, the intra-country and intergenerational aspects of climate justice have assumed new prominence in many countries in recent years, as the economic consequences of mitigation became felt and transnational activism highlighted youth concerns. The diverse elements of and approaches to climate justice have this in common: realising them requires massive financial interventions and reforms. This article examines the still emerging frameworks to finance climate justice in two of the jurisdictions most important to the global response to climate change: the European Union and the People’s Republic of China. The EU and China have in common that they are both on the front line of financial innovation to respond to climate change. They are utilising similar tools of systemic financial intervention in order to transition financing to climate-friendly investment, in the first case domestically, but with clear implications for global financial markets. However, the EU and China are utilising climate financing mechanisms in the context of very different prevailing perspectives on climate justice. This article interrogates the relationship between these different perspectives on climate justice and the distribution, scale and pace of climate finance. The article also observes that while the EU incorporated climate justice considerations in its economic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic with a recovery package prioritising climate action, China did not take the opportunity to foster a ‘green recovery’.

scholarly journals Teaching and Practicing Climate Politics at College of the Atlantic: Student-inspired, Student-driven

2015 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 24-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doreen Stabinsky
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Environmental Diplomacy ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Climate Change Politics

College of the Atlantic students past and present play leadership roles in the international climate justice youth movement. Student interest in climate change politics at the global level, particularly within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, has inspired the development of a range of courses at COA in global environmental diplomacy. The courses provide a climate justice framework for understanding the geopolitics and political economy of the negotiations, serve to link students with key actors in the climate justice movement, and ultimately to contribute to their own development as climate justice leaders.

scholarly journals New Developments in Publishing Related to Authorship

PRILOZI ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-66
Author(s):  
Doncho Donev
Keyword(s):  
Professional Status ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Practical Guidelines ◽  
Ethics Of Research

AbstractAim: To present the inappropriate types of authorship and practice, and the most recent developments related to basic principles and criteria to a fair system for allocating authorship in scientific publications.Methods: An analysis of relevant materials and documents, sources from the internet and published literature and personal experience and observations of the author.Results: Working in multidisciplinary teams is a common feature of modern research processes. The most sensitive question is how to decide on who to acknowledge as author of a multi-authored publication. The pertinence of this question is growing with the increasing importance of individual scientists' publication records for professional status and career. However, discussions about authorship allocation might lead to serious conflicts and disputes among coworkers which could even endanger cooperation and successful completion of a research project. It seems that discussion and education about ethical standards and practical guidelines for fairly allocating authorship are insufficient and the question of ethical practices related to authorship in multi-authored publications remains generally unresolved.Conclusion: It is necessary to work for raising awareness about the importance and need for education about principles of scientific communication and fair allocation of authorship, ethics of research and publication of results. The use of various forms of education in the scientific community, especially young researchers and students, in order to create an ethical environment, is one of the most effective ways to prevent the emergence of scientific and publication dishonesty and fraud, including pathology of authorship.

On the Road to an Encyclopedic Schema of Ethical Management: A Concoction of Multifarious Vedantic Philosophies

Think India ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-39
Author(s):  
Shivaji Banerjee ◽  
Shaunak Roy
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
The Road ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Face ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Ethical Vision ◽  
Scholarly Discourse ◽  
Business And Management ◽  
Pragmatic Ethics

The past couple of chiliads have incalculably borne testimony to philosophical contemplation, which have steered the ethical practices of business and management. The presented content is thus, ingrained on the roots of the premise that values and ethics are as germane as skills for the effectual management of organisations. Globally competitive, domestically indispensable and sustainable are those enterprises, which in the long run nurture the seeds of pragmatic ethics and canonical human values. The authors engage in a scholarly discourse to put together a holistic perspective of Vedantic ethical vision, springing from the roots of the pietistic Bhagavad Gita, and in so doing, validate the practical relevance of these principles to the substantive realm of business. This would unequivocally unveil the depths of ethical behaviour, which in all societies is persisting in going to seed. Momentous acumens on the subject of an enriched business that focuses on altering the face of organisational culture, hence zeroing in on vaster expansiveness and ethical chastity have also been shed valuable light on. The pursuit of this goal by bureaucrats and policymakers embraces the key to integral ethicality and sustainability by living out the ‘nyay’ and the ‘niti’.

Jumping on the Human Rights Bandwagon: How Rights-based Linkages Can Refocus Climate Politics

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Nicholson ◽  
Daniel Chong
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Human Rights Movement ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Normative Argument ◽  
Judicial Actions ◽  
Robust Response

This paper makes a normative argument for the greater strategic utilization of human rights institutions, practices, and discourses by those seeking a robust response to climate change. Bandwagoning between these two regimes is hardly a new thing. The environmental movement has long looked to the human rights movement for ideas and support, and vice versa. Here, we argue that there is potential for even more explicit bandwagoning in ways that will most directly benefit those who are suffering, and will continue to suffer, from climate change's greatest impacts. The human rights framework offers a guide to more effective climate action via two interconnected arenas: a legal arena that provides an established set of tools for climate activists, and a political arena that provides a normative underpinning for a range of judicial and non-judicial actions in support of ‘climate justice.’ Ultimately, moral and strategic guidance from the human rights movement points the way to a more equitable and enduring climate politics, with fairness at its heart.

Climate Justice in the Global North

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Prakash Kashwan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Global North ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
Climate Responses ◽  
Blind Spots

This essay provides a broad-based and jargon-free introduction to climate justice to foster critical thinking, engaged discussions, and profound reflections. It introduces the reader to three dimensions of justice—distributional, procedural, and recognitional justice—and shows how each relates to climate justice. A unique contribution of this essay is to identify and discuss the following three blind spots in the debates on climate justice: (1) the tendency to focus heavily on post hoc effects of climate change while ignoring the root causes of climate change that also contribute to injustices; (2) assuming incorrectly that all climate action contributes to climate justice, even though some types of climate responses can produce new climate injustices; and (3) although scholars have studied the causes of climate injustices extensively, the specific pathways to climate justice remain underdeveloped. This essay concludes by showcasing a few examples of the ongoing pursuits of climate justice, led by social justice groups, local governments, and some government agencies.

scholarly journals New Developments in Publishing Related to Authorship

PRILOZI ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Doncho Donev
Keyword(s):  
Professional Status ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Practical Guidelines ◽  
Ethics Of Research

AbstractAim: To present the inappropriate types of authorship and practice, and the most recent developments related to basic principles and criteria to a fair system for allocating authorship in scientific publications.Methods: An analysis of relevant materials and documents, sources from the internet and published literature and personal experience and observations of the author.Results: Working in multidisciplinary teams is a common feature of modern research processes. The most sensitive question is how to decide on who to acknowledge as author of a multi-authored publication. The pertinence of this question is growing with the increasing importance of individual scientists’ publication records for professional status and career. However, discussions about authorship allocation might lead to serious conflicts and disputes among coworkers which could even endanger cooperation and successful completion of a research project. It seems that discussion and education about ethical standards and practical guidelines for fairly allocating authorship are insufficient and the question of ethical practices related to authorship in multi-authored publications remains generally unresolved.Conclusion: It is necessary to work for raising awareness about the importance and need for education about principles of scientific communication and fair allocation of authorship, ethics of research and publication of results. The use of various forms of education in the scientific community, especially young researchers and students, in order to create an ethical environment, is one of the most effective ways to prevent the emergence of scientific and publication dishonesty and fraud, including pathology of authorship.

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