Wouter Peeters
Biographic Data
| ID | 187855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wouter Peeters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wouter |
| FAMILY NAME | Peeters |
| SIGNATURE | PEETERS W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6427-9085 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Doubling Down on Emissions Reductions
Especially in the public discourse, there seems to be a tendency to focus not on mitigation, but on the supplementary interventions – adaptation, negative emissions technologies, and solar radiation management – to tackle climate change. Arguably, this elicits a moral hazard, whereby reliance on the supplementary interventions results in mitigation deterrence. In this paper, I will argue that we should double down on urgent and ambitious emission…
Training, environmental and nutritional practices in indoor cycling
Introduction Indoor cycling at home has grown rapidly in recent years facilitated by advances in technology and gamification. However, there is limited data on individual's training practices when cycling indoors. Methods Using a single-time point, cross-sectional questionnaire, we gathered information on equipment, environmental considerations, training practices and nutrition during indoor cycling. Results Following 492 responses, external vari…
Focussing on people who experience poverty and on poor-led social movements
In this commentary, I discuss three aspects of Monique Deveaux’s account. First, the method of Grounded Normative Theorizing she adopts to engage directly with the contexts and views of those experiencing poverty fits within a range of proposals to enhance the methodology of moral and political philosophy, and I would call on all philosophers working in this space to further develop these innovative methodologies. Second, Deveaux extends the capa…
Climate Ethics with an Ethnographic Sensibility
How New are New Harms Really? Climate Change, Historical Reasoning and Social Change
Climate change and other contemporary harms are often depicted as New Harms because they seem to constitute unprecedented challenges. This New Harms Discourse rests on two important premises, both of which we criticise on empirical grounds. First, we argue that the Premise of changed conditions of human interaction—according to which the conditions regarding whom people affect (and how) have changed recently and which emphasises the difference wi…
Is the Clean Development Mechanism delivering benefits to the poorest communities in the developing world? A critical evaluation and proposals for reform
The delegated authority model misused as a strategy of disengagement in the case of climate change
The characterisation of anthropogenic climate change as a violation of basic human rights is gaining wide recognition. Many people believe that tackling this problem is exclusively the job of governments and supranational institutions (especially the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). This argument can be traced back to the delegated authority model, according to which the legitimacy of political institutions depends on their…
Is the EU ETS a Just Climate Policy
The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is in dire straits. Prone to design problems and suffering from the effects of the economic crises the scheme is criticised for its poor achievements. In this paper we will analyse some of the features of this situation from an ethical perspective. The major part is dedicated to the complications within each phase of the EU ETS and to the recent developments it has undergone. We will briefly di…
Towards an Integration of the Ecological Space Paradigm and the Capabilities Approach
Putting Sustainability into Sustainable Human Development
Abating the threat climate change poses to the lives of future people clearly challenges our development models. The 2011 Human Development Report rightly focuses on the integral links between sustainability and equity. However, the human development and capabilities approach emphasizes the expansion of people's capabilities simpliciter, which is questionable in view of environmental sustainability. We argue that capabilities should be defined as…
Putting Sustainability into Sustainable Human Development
Abating the threat climate change poses to the lives of future people clearly challenges our development models. The 2011 Human Development Report rightly focuses on the integral links between sustainability and equity. However, the human development and capabilities approach emphasizes the expansion of people's capabilities simpliciter, which is questionable in view of environmental sustainability. We argue that capabilities should be defined as…
Climate Ethics with an Ethnographic Sensibility
Towards an Integration of the Ecological Space Paradigm and the Capabilities Approach
How New are New Harms Really? Climate Change, Historical Reasoning and Social Change
Climate change and other contemporary harms are often depicted as New Harms because they seem to constitute unprecedented challenges. This New Harms Discourse rests on two important premises, both of which we criticise on empirical grounds. First, we argue that the Premise of changed conditions of human interaction—according to which the conditions regarding whom people affect (and how) have changed recently and which emphasises the difference wi…
The delegated authority model misused as a strategy of disengagement in the case of climate change
The characterisation of anthropogenic climate change as a violation of basic human rights is gaining wide recognition. Many people believe that tackling this problem is exclusively the job of governments and supranational institutions (especially the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). This argument can be traced back to the delegated authority model, according to which the legitimacy of political institutions depends on their…
Is the EU ETS a Just Climate Policy
The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is in dire straits. Prone to design problems and suffering from the effects of the economic crises the scheme is criticised for its poor achievements. In this paper we will analyse some of the features of this situation from an ethical perspective. The major part is dedicated to the complications within each phase of the EU ETS and to the recent developments it has undergone. We will briefly di…
Putting Sustainability into Sustainable Human Development
Abating the threat climate change poses to the lives of future people clearly challenges our development models. The 2011 Human Development Report rightly focuses on the integral links between sustainability and equity. However, the human development and capabilities approach emphasizes the expansion of people's capabilities simpliciter, which is questionable in view of environmental sustainability. We argue that capabilities should be defined as…
Towards an Integration of the Ecological Space Paradigm and the Capabilities Approach
Is the EU ETS a Just Climate Policy
The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is in dire straits. Prone to design problems and suffering from the effects of the economic crises the scheme is criticised for its poor achievements. In this paper we will analyse some of the features of this situation from an ethical perspective. The major part is dedicated to the complications within each phase of the EU ETS and to the recent developments it has undergone. We will briefly di…
Is the Clean Development Mechanism delivering benefits to the poorest communities in the developing world? A critical evaluation and proposals for reform
The delegated authority model misused as a strategy of disengagement in the case of climate change
The characterisation of anthropogenic climate change as a violation of basic human rights is gaining wide recognition. Many people believe that tackling this problem is exclusively the job of governments and supranational institutions (especially the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). This argument can be traced back to the delegated authority model, according to which the legitimacy of political institutions depends on their…
Climate Ethics with an Ethnographic Sensibility
How New are New Harms Really? Climate Change, Historical Reasoning and Social Change
Climate change and other contemporary harms are often depicted as New Harms because they seem to constitute unprecedented challenges. This New Harms Discourse rests on two important premises, both of which we criticise on empirical grounds. First, we argue that the Premise of changed conditions of human interaction—according to which the conditions regarding whom people affect (and how) have changed recently and which emphasises the difference wi…
Focussing on people who experience poverty and on poor-led social movements
In this commentary, I discuss three aspects of Monique Deveaux’s account. First, the method of Grounded Normative Theorizing she adopts to engage directly with the contexts and views of those experiencing poverty fits within a range of proposals to enhance the methodology of moral and political philosophy, and I would call on all philosophers working in this space to further develop these innovative methodologies. Second, Deveaux extends the capa…
Training, environmental and nutritional practices in indoor cycling
Introduction Indoor cycling at home has grown rapidly in recent years facilitated by advances in technology and gamification. However, there is limited data on individual's training practices when cycling indoors. Methods Using a single-time point, cross-sectional questionnaire, we gathered information on equipment, environmental considerations, training practices and nutrition during indoor cycling. Results Following 492 responses, external vari…
Doubling Down on Emissions Reductions
Especially in the public discourse, there seems to be a tendency to focus not on mitigation, but on the supplementary interventions – adaptation, negative emissions technologies, and solar radiation management – to tackle climate change. Arguably, this elicits a moral hazard, whereby reliance on the supplementary interventions results in mitigation deterrence. In this paper, I will argue that we should double down on urgent and ambitious emission…
Political science (8 works) · Climate Change and Geoengineering (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Climate change (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economic Justice (3 works)