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Fair Future: Limited Resources and Global Justice
May 15, 2007, Zed Books
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Cover of: Fair future
Fair future: resource conflicts and global justice
2007, Zed Books Ltd., Zed Books, Fernwood, Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillian
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Fair Future: Limited Resources and Global Justice
May 15, 2007, Zed Books
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Table of Contents

Preface
Justice for realists
Interconnected world
The new vulnerability
Levels of interdependence
Preventive justice
Divided world
The gap between nations
Internal inequality
Drift of world poverty
Finite world
What are limits?
Warning signs of overload
Justice in an age of limits
Threefold ecological justice
The dilemma of catching up
Inequality in the environment
The triad of omnivores
Geographical distribution of resources
Appropriation between north and south
Distribution of damage
Unequal ecological exchange
The triad and its 'colonies'
Ecological trade balance
The post-industrial illusion
Resource claims of rising economies
The new consumer countries
'Global cities' and their hinterland
The transnational consumer class
Arenas of appropriation
Geopolitics: the hands on the oil
Spheres of influence
Peak oil
More demand, fewer suppliers
Exit from oil as security policy
Foreign trade: the appropriation of land
Food first or exports first
Marginalization of farmers and land
Who gains from rural exodus?
A caricature of free trade
Investment: the monopolization of water
Trapped water
Virtual water
Contaminated water
Lucrative water
International law: patents on plants
The rise of biopiracy
Whose knowledge?
Forum shifting
Bilaterals as a gateway
Models of resource justice
Ethics and distance
Interest in security
Interest in self-respect
Interest in world citizenship
Recognition and distribution
Justice as recognition
Justice as distribution
Securing livelihood rights
Habitats and human rights
Human rights, human duties
Cutting back resource claims
Egalitarianism as the exception
Survival before prosperity
Freedom before overconsumption
Shaping fair exchange
Value created and creamed off
Learning from fair trade
Compensating for disadvantages
Common but differentiated responsibilities
Ecological debt
Fair wealth
Contraction and convergence
Equality - at what level?
Well-being and resource consumption
Cutting back on high consumption
The trio of efficiency, consistency and sufficiency
The example of energy
The example of transport
The leap forward in the South
Decentralized electricity generation
Mobility without car dependence
Regenerative agriculture
Financial institutions as facilitators of leapfrogging?
Agreements for fairness and ecology
Equity in the greenhouse
Molecules and human rights
User rights to the atmosphere
Fairness and diversity
Sovereignty as protection
Rights of local communities
Fair trade instead of free trade
Development rights before market access
Human rights before market access
Environmental rights before market access
Approaches to a reinvention of the WTO
Rights for enterprises
Beyond the yearly balance-sheet
How much can voluntary standards achieve?
Responsibility for the world society
What is Europe worth?
Make law not war
Kyoto - and what else?
Farewell to Marrakesh
Alliances for a fair future
Bibliography.

Edition Notes

Translated from German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
London, UK, New York, NY
Other Titles
Resource conflicts and global justice

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
333.7
Library of Congress
HC85 .F355 2007, HC59.72.E5

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
276

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17440452M
Internet Archive
fairfutureresour0000unse
ISBN 10
1842777297, 1842777289
ISBN 13
9781842777299, 9781842777282
LCCN
2007010223
OCLC/WorldCat
86090343
Goodreads
1167034

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