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voisard_wallimann-helmer_2024_towardsapracticalclimateethics
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Towards a Practical Climate Ethics: Combining Two Approaches to Guide Ethical Decision-Making in Concrete Climate Governance Contexts

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  • 2023
Published in:
  • Ethics, Policy & Environment. - London, UK: Informa UK Limited. - 2023, vol. 27, no. 3, p. 333-349
climate ethics
climate justice
methodology of midlevel principles
principlism
environmental pragmatism
English This paper discusses two approaches to climate ethics for practical reflection and decision-making in concrete local climate change governance. After a brief review of the main conceptual frameworks in climate ethics research, we show that none of these leading approaches is sufficiently context specific and pluralistic to provide guidance appropriate for concrete local climate governance. As alternatives, we present principlism as a methodology of midlevel principles and environmental pragmatism as an ethical approach. We argue that the two methodologies of principlism and pragmatism offer a new pluralistic framework that allows realworld conditions and contexts to be properly integrated into ethical analysis and decision-making in climate governance.
Faculty
Faculté des sciences et de médecine
Department
Département de Géosciences
Language
  • English
Classification
Ecology and biodeversity
License
CC BY
Open access status
hybrid
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https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/330978
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