Steve Vanderheiden
International justice: Rights and obligations of statesBy: Steve VanderheidenAbstract:ÌýA preliminary question to its application concerns whether or not justice can defensibly be extended to relations between states, as the notion of
Climate justice and equityBy: Steve VanderheidenAbstract:ÌýEquity serves as a key ideal in the normative assessment of anthropogenic climate change as well as in the evaluation of responses to it. This chapter examines this ideal in light of
Climate change equity and extreme vulnerabilityBy: Steve VanderheidenAbstract:ÌýClimate justice scholars have called for equity to serve as a guiding ideal in international responses to climate change, typically noting that the countries and
Mitigation duties of poor and vulnerable countriesBy: Steve VanderheidenAbstract:ÌýFollowing the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, national responsibilities to contribute toward climate change mitigation have been guided by that treaty
Hope Springs Eternal?By: Steve VanderheidenAbstract:ÌýAs Darrel Moellendorf observes in Mobilizing Hope, climate change and poverty are intertwined in various ways, including the facts that climate impacts threaten to exacerbate global poverty
Incorporating Equitable Carbon Access into Carbon TaxesBy: Steve VanderheidenAbstract:ÌýAs climate change mitigation measures, carbon taxes ought to assign the burdens associated with decarbonization equitably and should at least aim to avoid
Unequal Futures: Spatial Patterns of Environmental Injustice Across Three European Case StudiesBy: Aine Santala, Steve VanderheidenAbstract:Ìý“Sacrifice zonesâ€� is a term that has evolved to refer to sites of concentrated environmental hazards
Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir. By Omer Aijazi. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. 284p.By: Steven VanderheidenAbstract:ÌýEthnographer of disaster and decolonialism Omer Aijazi’s book Atmospheric Violence
Global Justice and the Biodiversity Crisis: by Chris Armstrong, Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2024By: Steve VanderheidenAbstract:ÌýAnthropogenic environmental change, especially when of a scale that could without hyperbole be called a
Transforming Texas-style commodification: Sovereignty, resilience, and energy justiceBy: Whiskey Sours, Steve VanderheidenAbstract:ÌýWe examine the 2021 collapse of the Texas electrical grid as a case study of vulnerabilities introduced by the