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. 2017 Oct;23(5):1247-1252.
doi: 10.1007/s11948-017-9967-2. Epub 2017 Sep 9.

Introduction to the Special Issue on Climate Ethics: Uncertainty, Values and Policy

Sabine Roeser  1
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Climate Ethics: Uncertainty, Values and Policy

Sabine Roeser. Sci Eng Ethics. 2017 Oct.

Abstract

Climate change is a pressing phenomenon with huge potential ethical, legal and social policy implications. Climate change gives rise to intricate moral and policy issues as it involves contested science, uncertainty and risk. In order to come to scientifically and morally justified, as well as feasible, policies, targeting climate change requires an interdisciplinary approach. This special issue will identify the main challenges that climate change poses from social, economic, methodological and ethical perspectives by focusing on the complex interrelations between uncertainty, values and policy in this context. This special issue brings together scholars from economics, social sciences and philosophy in order to address these challenges.

Keywords: Climate ethics; Policy; Uncertainty; Values.

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