Features (Peer-Reviewed)

Human Rights Versus Emissions Rights: Climate Justice and the Equitable Distribution of Ecological Space [Abstract] | Tim Hayward | 12/06/2007
Arguing that issues of both emissions and subsistence should be comprehended within a single framework of justice, the proposal here is that this broader framework be developed by reference to the idea of "ecological space."
States of Risk: Should Cosmopolitans Favor Their Compatriots? [Abstract] | Richard Vernon | 12/06/2007
This article claims that it is not mutual benefit but mutual risk that grounds compatriot preference. Exposure to risks such as state abuse provide us with a reason to take our compatriots' interests seriously. The same argument, however, displays the limits of this reasoning, and also grounds a demanding obligation to aid other societies.