Introduction: On the Challenges of Intergenerational Justice and Climate Change

Autores

  • Santiago Truccone-Borgogno University of Graz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2018v17n3p345

Resumo

This introduction aims to describe some fundamental problems of intergenerational justice and climate change. It also intends to provide comments on improved versions of some of the best papers presented in the International Meeting “Intergenerational Justice and Climate Change: juridical, moral and political issues” that took place at Cordoba National University (Argentina), in September 2017. In that meeting, the discussion focused on these topics by considering the ideas of the two keynote speakers invited to the event: Lukas H. Meyer and Alessandro Pinzani. I devote the last part of this essay to discuss two pressing issues concerning climate change whose practical solutions challenge our standard understanding of the notion of harm.

Biografia do Autor

Santiago Truccone-Borgogno, University of Graz

FWF-project Superseding Historical Injustice and Changed Circumstances (Philosophy Department, University of Graz)

Dr. of Law and Social Sciences (Cordoba National University)

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2018-12-25

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