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Oxford Global Justice Natural Resources and Climate Change 2019 Edition by Megan Blomfield
To address climate change fairly, many conflicting claims over natural resources must be balanced against one another. This has long been obvious in the case of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas sinks including the atmosphere and forests; but it is ever more apparent that responses to climate change also threaten to spur new competition over land and extractive resources. This makes climate change an instance of a broader, more enduring and - for many - all too_x000D_familiar problem: the problem of human conflict over how the natural world should be cared for, protected, shared, used, and managed. _x000D__x000D_This work develops a new theory of global egalitarianism concerning natural resources, rejecting both permanent sovereignty and equal division, which is then used to examine the problem of climate change. It formulates principles of resource right designed to protect the ability of all human beings to satisfy their basic needs as members of self-determining political communities, where it is understood that the genuine exercise of collective self-determination is not possible from a position of_x000D_significant disadvantage in global wealth and power relations. These principles are used to address the question of where to set the ceiling on future greenhouse gas emissions and how to share the resulting emissions budget, in the face of conflicting claims to fossil fuels, climate sinks, and land._x000D_It is also used to defend an unorthodox understanding of responsibility for climate change as a problem of global justice, based on its provenance in historical injustice concerning natural resources._x000D_ Table of Contents :- _x000D_
Section I: Climate Justice_x000D_
1: Introduction_x000D_
2: Sharing the Global Emissions Budget_x000D_
Section II: Natural Resource Justice_x000D_
3: Global Justice and Natural Resources_x000D_
4: Against Equal Division of Natural Resources_x000D_
5: Contractualist Common Ownership and the Basic Needs Principle_x000D_
6: Collective Self-Determination without Resource Sovereignty_x000D_
7: Limited Territorial Jurisdication Over Natural Resources_x000D_
Section III: Natural Resources and Climate Justice_x000D_
8: Revisiting the Global Emissions Budget_x000D_
9: Historical Emissions Debt_x000D_
10: The Significance of Historical Injustice Concerning Natural Resources_x000D_
11: Conclusion_x000D_