Territorial Instability and the Right to a Livable Locality

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ID11265008
AuthorsSimona Capisani (0000-0001-6545-962X, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume42
Issue2
Pages189-207
Publication date2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironmental Ethics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-4275 • E-ISSN: 2153-7895
PublisherPhilosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5840/enviroethics2020111816
OpenAlexW3107016009
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Territory loss and uninhabitability characterize the current environmental background conditions of the international state system. Such conditions present pressing moral questions about our obligations to protect those who are displaced by anthropogenic climate change. By virtue of our participation in the territorial state system, understood as a social practice, we have principled grounds to address some of the consequences of the uninhabitability conditions brought on by climate change. By assuming territorial instability and employing a practice-based method of justification we can identify a fundamental, basic right protected under the state system—the right to a livable locality—which grounds a moral obligation to protect against climate change-induced displacement. Assuming territorial instability and uninhabitability compels us to recognize that the causes generating climate-displacement are not merely natural but rather deeply political and that displacement is a foreseeable failure that results because of the state system’s organizational structure

Climate change · Environmental ethics · Law and economics · Locality · Moral obligation · Obligation · Political economy · Political instability · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Environmental law and policy · Law · Philosophy · Psychology

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