Summary of content

This module critically examines the ethics of climate change. It does so by situating climate change, and the concept of climate justice, within the wider debates and schools of thought prevalent in the field of environmental ethics. This approach allows students to develop a broad understanding of environmental ethics an ability to apply different ethical frameworks to the specific issue of climate change knowledge of the challenges climate change poses for traditional ethical theories and a nuanced and critical understanding of the ethical dimensions of the concept of climate justice.

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