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PUBLICATIONID : 48099
PUBLICATIONTYPE : 1
TYPE : Article
TITLE : Remediation and Respect: Do Remediation Technologies Alter Our Responsibility?
ORIG_TITLE : Remediation and Respect: Do Remediation Technologies Alter Our Responsibility?
AUTHOR : Hale, B and WP Grundy
FIRST_AUTHOR : Hale, B and WP Grundy
AUTHOR_COUNT : 1
ADDRESS : [Hale, Benjamin] Univ Colorado, Ctr Sci & Technol Policy Res, Boulder, CO 80309 USA; [Grundy, W. P.] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Invest Filosof, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico
PUBLISHER : WHITE HORSE PRESS
FIRSTAUTHOREMPLOYER : 1
ABBREV_JOURNAL : Environ. Values
BEGINPAGE : 397
ENDPAGE : 415
VOLUME : 18
ISSUE : 4
PUBLISH_DATE : NOV
YEAR : 2009
URL : http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-2781-2009.59.pdf
REFEREED : 1
RESOURCE : WOS:000271038700002
CITATION : 4
DEPT : CSTPR
LAST_UPDATED : 2012-10-11 11:38:32
ISSN : 0963-2719
IDS : 509SM
DOI : 10.3197/096327109X12532653285696
ABSTRACT : In this paper we examine the relation between technologies that aim to remediate pollution and moral responsibility. Contrary to the common view that successful remediation technologies will permit the wheels of industry to turn without interruption, we argue that such technologies do not exculpate polluters of responsibility. To make this case, we examine several environmental and non-environmental cases. We suggest that some strategies for understanding the moral problem of pollution, and particularly those that emphasise harms, exclude an important dimension of morality. In lieu of these strategies, we employ the concept of respect to characterise the type of attitude that underlies many of our judgments about responsibility.
KEYWORDS : Restoration; pollution; climate change; geoengineering; carbon capture
KEYWORD_PLUS : RIGHTS
AREA : Social Sciences - Other Topics; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
FIRST_AUTHOR_EMAIL : bhale@colorado.edu; wpgrundy@cantab.net
PUBLICATION : ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES
PLACE : ISLE OF HARRIS
LANGUAGE : English
SERIAL : 48099
PAGES : 397-415
APPROVED : yes
ONLINE_PUBLICATION : no
VERSION : 1
FIRST_AUTHOR_ADDRESS : Hale, B (reprint author), Univ Colorado, Ctr Sci & Technol Policy Res, 1333 Grandview Ave,UCB 488, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
AUTHOR_OTHER_FORM : Hale, Benjamin; Grundy, W. P.
REFERENCES_NUM : 27
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PUBLISHER_ADDRESS : 1 STROND, ISLE OF HARRIS HS5 3UD, ENGLAND
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