ABSTRACT
A major change on the international landscape concerning international responses to the challenge of climate change is the new US policy under the US President Barack Obama administration. Climate Change and Environmental Ethics, collects first-rate research and thinking of scholars from multiple disciplines—ethics, ecology, ecological philosophy, economics, political science, history, and international law. The entire populations of low-lying States such as the Maldives, Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Marshall Islands may in future be obliged to leave their own country as a result of climate change. A political scientist, an ecological economist, and two professors of philosophy propose new governance and economics approaches to meet the challenge. Sheila D. Collins, who directs the graduate program in Public Policy and International Affairs at William Patterson University in New Jersey, offers refreshing insights as she argues for a new paradigm of global governance and economy.
