Voisard Anthony, Wallimann-Helmer Ivo
Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg Environmental Sciences and Humanities Institute, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Ethics Policy Environ. 2023 Aug 1;27(3):333-349. doi: 10.1080/21550085.2023.2236504. eCollection 2024.
This paper discusses two approaches to climate ethics for practical reflection and decision-making in concrete local climate change governance. After a brief review of the main conceptual frameworks in climate ethics research, we show that none of these leading approaches is sufficiently context specific and pluralistic to provide guidance appropriate for concrete local climate governance. As alternatives, we present principlism as a methodology of mid-level principles and environmental pragmatism as an ethical approach. We argue that the two methodologies of principlism and pragmatism offer a new pluralistic framework that allows real-world conditions and contexts to be properly integrated into ethical analysis and decision-making in climate governance.
本文探讨了两种气候伦理方法，用于在具体的地方气候变化治理中进行实践反思和决策。在简要回顾气候伦理研究中的主要概念框架后，我们表明，这些主流方法中没有一种足够针对具体情境且具有多元性，能够为具体的地方气候治理提供适当的指导。作为替代方案，我们提出将原则主义作为一种中层原则的方法论，将环境实用主义作为一种伦理方法。我们认为，原则主义和实用主义这两种方法论提供了一个新的多元框架，使现实世界的条件和背景能够被恰当地纳入气候治理中的伦理分析和决策。
