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Perspectives on Climate Change: Science, Economics, Politics, Ethics. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Richard Howarth eds. Advances in the Economics of Environmental Resources. Vol. 5. Elsevier: New York. Chandran Kukathas. 2003. The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom. Oxford University Press: Oxford. Hans Köchler, Global ...
Global citizenship, in some contexts, may refer to a brand of ethics or political philosophy in which it is proposed that the core social, political, economic, and environmental realities of the world today should be addressed at all levels—by individuals, civil society organizations, communities, and nation states—through a global lens. It ...
The concept builds upon the basic tenets behind global ethics, global justice and world citizenship, inviting everyone to question their increasingly important role in a highly interdependent world. In early 2011, Altinay published Global Civics: Responsibilities and Rights in an Interdependent World, [ 3 ] a book of articles on global civics ...
The Global Citizenship Foundation defines Global citizenship education as "a transformative, lifelong pursuit that involves both curricular learning and practical experience to shape a mindset to care for humanity and the planet, and to equip individuals with global competence to undertake responsible actions aimed at forging more just, peaceful, secure, sustainable, tolerant and inclusive ...
In 2008, cultural sensitivity was found to be a widely used term in a literature search of global databases, both popular and scholarly. Based on this literature, cultural sensitivity is defined as "employing one's knowledge, consideration, understanding, [and] respect, and tailoring [it] after realizing awareness of self and others, and ...
International ethics is an area of international relations theory which in one way or another concerns the extent and scope of ethical obligations between states in an era of globalization. Schools of thought include cosmopolitanism and anti-cosmopolitanism . [ 1 ]
The two fundamental ethical demands are made concrete in five directives (initially four before the addition of the fifth in 2018 [12]), which are "convincing and practical for all women and men of good will, religious and non-religious". [1] These directives are elaborated in the Global Ethic. They are commitments to a culture of:
Climate change has become a concern for a number of disciplines due to its potentially catastrophic impacts on environmental systems, wildlife, nature, and humans.Climate change poses a serious threat to the global economy as economic development, especially in the West, has been largely dependent on the extraction and burning of fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution. [5]