Morten Fibieger Byskov
Biographic Data
| ID | 220065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Morten Fibieger Byskov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Morten Fibieger |
| FAMILY NAME | Byskov |
| SIGNATURE | BYSKOV M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1682-2311 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The right to climate adaptation in theory and practice
Irreversible and inevitable climate change will, and already has, negatively affected the lives, livelihoods, and health of many communities around the world as well as of future generations. Yet, climate-affected communities often have little responsibility for bringing about these consequences. This has led some scholars to argue that climate-affected communities, now and in the future, have a ‘right to climate adaptation:’ the right to demand …
The Right to Climate Adaptation
The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change has over the past decade repeatedly warned that we are heading towards inevitable and irreversible climate change, which will negatively affect the lives, livelihoods, and well-being of millions of people around the world, both at present and in the future. In fact, many people, especially vulnerable and marginalized communities in low- and middle-income countries, already live with the effects of cl…
Epistemic injustice in Climate Adaptation
Indigenous peoples are disproportionally vulnerable to climate change. At the same time, they possess valuable knowledge for fair and sustainable climate adaptation planning and policymaking. Yet Indigenous peoples and knowledges are often excluded from or underrepresented within adaptation plans and policies. In this paper we ask whether the concept of epistemic injustice can be applied to the context of climate adaptation and the underrepresent…
Who Should Represent Future Generations in Climate Planning
Extreme impacts from climate change are already being felt around the world. The policy choices that we make now will affect not only how high global temperatures rise but also how well-equipped future economies and infrastructures are to cope with these changes. The interests of future generations must therefore be central to climate policy and practice. This raises the questions: Who should represent the interests of future generations with res…
Introduction
its Sixth Assessment Report, published in three parts across and , the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presents its most dire warning yet: Unless we make rapid changes to our production and consumption patterns, within decades we will face a severe breakdown of the global climate.Although the impacts will be felt globally, the most severe consequences will befall socioeconomically vulnerable communities, especially in the Global …
Addressing multi-dimensional injustice in indigenous adaptation
Indigenous peoples, who depend on their environment for livelihoods and are often subject to poverty and socio-economic marginalization, are some of the most vulnerable to climate change. While the rights of Indigenous peoples are recognized internationally, these are not translated into adaptation responses. Using insights from theories of environmental justice in the case of Uganda’s Batwa community, we assess how justice-related factors impact…
What Makes Epistemic Injustice an “Injustice”
The ability to be treated equally as a knower has in recent years become increasingly recognized as an important aspect of justice within social and political philosophy. Unfair and unjust communicative structures, institutions, and practices have the potential to reproduce and further exacerbate existing socioeconomic inequalities and injustices. Epistemic injustice is the idea that we can be unfairly discriminated against in our capacity as a k…
Four challenges to knowledge integration for development and the role of philosophy in addressing them
Integrating local knowledge about environmental and socioeconomic circumstances is necessary in order for development efforts to be responsive to local realities and needs. However, knowledge-integration in development planning is not a straightforward process. Drawing on philosophical theory, in this paper, I identify and discuss four challenges to knowledge integration and how they can be overcome. First, practical challenges refer to the many …
The Capability Approach in Practice
This book develops a philosophical framework for selecting goals for development purposes. This inclusive and democratic framework integrates a variety of resources including philosophical theory, empirical analysis, stakeholder deliberations, local knowledge, and advice from development experts. The author contends that we must provide good reasons and arguments in order to justify a particular development agenda. That is, we need to ask why we …
Utilitarianism and risk
In day-to-day life, we are continuously exposed to different kinds of risk. Unfortunately, avoiding risk can often come at societal or individual costs. Hence, an important task within risk management is deciding how much it can be justified to expose members of society to risk x in order to avoid societal and individual costs y – and vice versa. We can refer to this as the task of setting an acceptable risk threshold. Judging whether a risk thre…
Democracy, Philosophy, and the Selection of Capabilities
A key task within the capability approach is the selection of relevant capabilities. The question of how to select capabilities has divided capability theorists into two camps: those who argue that it is a philosophical task and those who argue that it is a matter for the public. In this paper, I argue that this distinction between philosophy and democracy is counterproductive to the operationalization of the capability approach. On the one hand,…
Who Should Represent Future Generations in Climate Planning
Extreme impacts from climate change are already being felt around the world. The policy choices that we make now will affect not only how high global temperatures rise but also how well-equipped future economies and infrastructures are to cope with these changes. The interests of future generations must therefore be central to climate policy and practice. This raises the questions: Who should represent the interests of future generations with res…
Democracy, Philosophy, and the Selection of Capabilities
A key task within the capability approach is the selection of relevant capabilities. The question of how to select capabilities has divided capability theorists into two camps: those who argue that it is a philosophical task and those who argue that it is a matter for the public. In this paper, I argue that this distinction between philosophy and democracy is counterproductive to the operationalization of the capability approach. On the one hand,…
Four challenges to knowledge integration for development and the role of philosophy in addressing them
Integrating local knowledge about environmental and socioeconomic circumstances is necessary in order for development efforts to be responsive to local realities and needs. However, knowledge-integration in development planning is not a straightforward process. Drawing on philosophical theory, in this paper, I identify and discuss four challenges to knowledge integration and how they can be overcome. First, practical challenges refer to the many …
Utilitarianism and risk
In day-to-day life, we are continuously exposed to different kinds of risk. Unfortunately, avoiding risk can often come at societal or individual costs. Hence, an important task within risk management is deciding how much it can be justified to expose members of society to risk x in order to avoid societal and individual costs y – and vice versa. We can refer to this as the task of setting an acceptable risk threshold. Judging whether a risk thre…
Democracy, Philosophy, and the Selection of Capabilities
A key task within the capability approach is the selection of relevant capabilities. The question of how to select capabilities has divided capability theorists into two camps: those who argue that it is a philosophical task and those who argue that it is a matter for the public. In this paper, I argue that this distinction between philosophy and democracy is counterproductive to the operationalization of the capability approach. On the one hand,…
The Capability Approach in Practice
This book develops a philosophical framework for selecting goals for development purposes. This inclusive and democratic framework integrates a variety of resources including philosophical theory, empirical analysis, stakeholder deliberations, local knowledge, and advice from development experts. The author contends that we must provide good reasons and arguments in order to justify a particular development agenda. That is, we need to ask why we …
Utilitarianism and risk
In day-to-day life, we are continuously exposed to different kinds of risk. Unfortunately, avoiding risk can often come at societal or individual costs. Hence, an important task within risk management is deciding how much it can be justified to expose members of society to risk x in order to avoid societal and individual costs y – and vice versa. We can refer to this as the task of setting an acceptable risk threshold. Judging whether a risk thre…
Four challenges to knowledge integration for development and the role of philosophy in addressing them
Integrating local knowledge about environmental and socioeconomic circumstances is necessary in order for development efforts to be responsive to local realities and needs. However, knowledge-integration in development planning is not a straightforward process. Drawing on philosophical theory, in this paper, I identify and discuss four challenges to knowledge integration and how they can be overcome. First, practical challenges refer to the many …
Addressing multi-dimensional injustice in indigenous adaptation
Indigenous peoples, who depend on their environment for livelihoods and are often subject to poverty and socio-economic marginalization, are some of the most vulnerable to climate change. While the rights of Indigenous peoples are recognized internationally, these are not translated into adaptation responses. Using insights from theories of environmental justice in the case of Uganda’s Batwa community, we assess how justice-related factors impact…
What Makes Epistemic Injustice an “Injustice”
The ability to be treated equally as a knower has in recent years become increasingly recognized as an important aspect of justice within social and political philosophy. Unfair and unjust communicative structures, institutions, and practices have the potential to reproduce and further exacerbate existing socioeconomic inequalities and injustices. Epistemic injustice is the idea that we can be unfairly discriminated against in our capacity as a k…
Epistemic injustice in Climate Adaptation
Indigenous peoples are disproportionally vulnerable to climate change. At the same time, they possess valuable knowledge for fair and sustainable climate adaptation planning and policymaking. Yet Indigenous peoples and knowledges are often excluded from or underrepresented within adaptation plans and policies. In this paper we ask whether the concept of epistemic injustice can be applied to the context of climate adaptation and the underrepresent…
Who Should Represent Future Generations in Climate Planning
Extreme impacts from climate change are already being felt around the world. The policy choices that we make now will affect not only how high global temperatures rise but also how well-equipped future economies and infrastructures are to cope with these changes. The interests of future generations must therefore be central to climate policy and practice. This raises the questions: Who should represent the interests of future generations with res…
Introduction
its Sixth Assessment Report, published in three parts across and , the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presents its most dire warning yet: Unless we make rapid changes to our production and consumption patterns, within decades we will face a severe breakdown of the global climate.Although the impacts will be felt globally, the most severe consequences will befall socioeconomically vulnerable communities, especially in the Global …
The Right to Climate Adaptation
The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change has over the past decade repeatedly warned that we are heading towards inevitable and irreversible climate change, which will negatively affect the lives, livelihoods, and well-being of millions of people around the world, both at present and in the future. In fact, many people, especially vulnerable and marginalized communities in low- and middle-income countries, already live with the effects of cl…
The right to climate adaptation in theory and practice
Irreversible and inevitable climate change will, and already has, negatively affected the lives, livelihoods, and health of many communities around the world as well as of future generations. Yet, climate-affected communities often have little responsibility for bringing about these consequences. This has led some scholars to argue that climate-affected communities, now and in the future, have a ‘right to climate adaptation:’ the right to demand …
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Climate change (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Climate Change and Geoengineering (3 works)