| DOI: | 10.1002/wcc.347
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| Scopus记录号: | 2-s2.0-84930819039
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| 论文题名: | Climate change and the ethics of discounting |
| 作者: | Davidson M; D
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| 刊名: | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
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| ISSN: | 17577780
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| 出版年: | 2015
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| 卷: | 6, 期:4 | | 起始页码: | 401
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| 结束页码: | 412
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 英文关键词: | Decision making
; Earnings
; Economic analysis
; Economics
; Gas emissions
; Greenhouse gases
; Philosophical aspects
; Public policy
; Climate policy
; Discount rates
; Marginal rates
; Moral theory
; Climate change
; climate change
; consumption behavior
; cost-benefit analysis
; economic analysis
; environmental economics
; environmental policy
; ethics
; morality
; policy making
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| 英文摘要: | Climate policy-making requires a balancing, however rudimentary, of the costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions against the benefits of reduced risks of climate change. Since those creating and those facing the risks of climate change belong to different generations, striking the balance is preeminently a matter of ethics. In climate policy-making, this issue of intergenerational ethics is hidden behind the choice of the discount rate, a parameter used in economic analysis to compare changes in consumption occurring in different years. There is a long-standing debate in ethics and economics as to whether discounting the future is morally justifiable. Some economists have argued that the future should always be discounted against the marginal rate of return on alternative investments, whether for reasons of efficiency, or for reasons of consumer sovereignty and democracy. Other authors, however, have argued against this position, instead proposing discount rates based on a variety of moral principles. Although these counterarguments may be convincing, the debate between the two positions is far from settled. Neither has the debate been settled as to which moral theory the discount rate should be based on. This is hardly surprising, though, given the fact that within ethics itself, the debate over the various moral principles is still ongoing. © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| 资源类型: | 期刊论文
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76270
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| Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性
气候变化与战略
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作者单位: | Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Research group Philosophy and Public Affairs, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Davidson M,D. Climate change and the ethics of discounting[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2015-01-01,6(4)
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