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Acting Before Future Generations
This chapter establishes that intergenerational environmental ethics and policy relating to intergenerational environmental ethics tend to privilege...
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Climate Change and Institutions for Future Generations: the Litigation Option
While political philosophy is concerned with institutions for future generations, climate litigation has so far enjoyed little attention. However,...
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Climate Change and Institutions for Future Generations: The Litigation Option
While political philosophy is concerned with institutions for future generations, climate litigation has so far enjoyed little attention. However,...
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Intergenerational contract in Ageing Democracies: sustainable Welfare Systems and the interests of future generations
As the assumptions of perpetual economic and population growth no longer stand, the welfare systems built on such promises are in peril. Policymakers...
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Future Generations
Future generations is the term used to refer to the next and subsequent generations of humans. Whatever context it is used in it acknowledges that...
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The Moral Entitlements of Future Persons: Expectancies and Prospective Beneficiaries
This paper develops a future-oriented and person-centred normative argument based on expectancies that is immune to most of the problems identified...
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Feeling Emotions for Future People
It is more difficult to feel emotions for future generations than for those who currently exist, and this seems to be one of the reasons why we...
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Present Risks, Future Lives: Social Freedom and Environmental Sustainability Policies
One topic of growing interest in the debate on intergenerational justice is the duty to respect the freedom of future generations. One consideration...
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Human Rights
Ideally, human rights exist independently of any state regime but, in truth, have little effect if not allocated on the basis of membership of at...
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Seven Principles for Seven Generations: Moral Boundaries for Transformational Change
This paper seeks to provide an approach for achieving a more socially and environmentally sustainable life by reframing the rules of engagement with...
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Contemplating the principles of the UNESCO declaration on bioethics and human rights: a bioaesthetic experience
The purpose of our article is to contemplate, from an aesthetic-artistic vision, the principles of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human...
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Bringing It All Together: Leveraging Social Movements and the Courts to Advance Substantive Human Rights and Climate Justice
Although significant literature and jurisprudence has amassed on rights-based climate litigation over recent years, less research and case law has...
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What Went Wrong with Saman’s Story? Cultural Practice, Individual Rights, Gender, and Political Polarization
In this paper the authors deal with the story of Saman Abbas, an 18-year-old girl of Pakistani origin, who disappeared in Italy and was killed by her...
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The Ethical Status of Germline Gene Editing in Future Space Missions: The Special Case of Positive Selection on Earth for Future Space Missions
There are good theoretical rationales for considering germline gene editing (GGE) as a recommended and perhaps even necessary procedure for future...
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Considerations for Policy Decisions Involving Multiple Generations: An Examination Through an Economic Experiment on Fiscal Policy
As a methodology to encourage cooperation, this chapter discusses the function of deliberation. ThroughDeliberation an experiment in which people are...
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Identifying a Human Rights Approach to Roma Health Vulnerabilities and Inequalities in Europe: From Concept to Action
Roma communities across Europe still remain a neglected population group by way of the social and economic disadvantage that largely characterizes...
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Climate Change and Human Rights
Since 2007, climate change has officially been considered a threat to the enjoyment of human rights. Its impacts have been observed practically...
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Climate Change and Human Rights
Since 2007, climate change has officially been considered a threat to the enjoyment of human rights. Its impacts have been observed practically...