Contents

pp v-vi

Contributors

pp vii-viii

Foreword

pp ix-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xiv

Part I - Framings

pp 1-2

1 - The framing of climate change: why it matters

pp 3-22

2 - The idea of human security

pp 23-46

3 - Climate change science and policy, as if people mattered

pp 47-62

Part II - Equity

pp 63-64

4 - A “shared vision”? Why inequality should worry us

pp 65-82

5 - Fair decision making in a new climate of risk

pp 83-94

Part III - Ethics

pp 95-96

6 - Ethics, politics, economics and the global environment

pp 97-112

7 - Human rights, climate change, and discounting

pp 113-130

8 - Climate change as a global test for contemporary political institutions and theories

pp 131-154

Part IV - Reflexivity

pp 155-156

9 - Linking sustainable development with climate change adaptation and mitigation

pp 157-179

10 - Global poverty and climate change: towards the responsibility to protect

pp 180-198

11 - Social contracts in a changing climate: security of what and for whom?

pp 199-214

12 - Towards a new science on climate change

pp 215-227

Index

pp 228-231