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Title Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories / edited by Dónal P. O'Mathúna, Vilius Dranseika, Bert Gordijn.

Publication Info. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (IX, 244 pages) : online resource.
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Series Advancing Global Bioethics, 2212-652X ; 11
Advancing global bioethics ; 11. 2212-652X
Contents 1. Conceptualizing and assessing disasters: An introduction -- 2. Conceptualizations of disasters in philosophy -- 3. Christian theology and disasters: Where is God in all this? -- 4. Disasters and responsibility. Normative issues for law following disasters -- 5. The ethical content of the economic analysis of disasters: Price gouging and post-disaster recovery -- 6. Political Science perspectives -- 7. You can't go home again -- on the conceptualisation of disasters in ancient Greek tragedy -- 8. Conceptualizing Disasters from a Gender Perspective -- 10. Disaster consequentialism -- 11. Disasters, vulnerability and human rights -- 12. Capabilities, ethics and disasters -- 14. Virtue ethics and disasters -- 15. Kantian virtue ethics approaches -- 16. The loss of deontology on the road to apathy: Examples of homelessness and IVF now, with disaster to follow -- Afterword -- Bibliography of selected titles -- Index: Subject and/or Name.
Summary This Open Access Book is the first to examine disasters from a multidisciplinary perspective. Justification of actions in the face of disasters requires recourse both to conceptual analysis and ethical traditions. Part 1 of the book contains chapters on how disasters are conceptualized in different academic disciplines relevant to disasters. Part 2 has chapters on how ethical issues that arise in relation to disasters can be addressed from a number of fundamental normative approaches in moral and political philosophy. This book sets the stage for more focused normative debates given that no one book can be completely comprehensive. Providing analysis of core concepts, and with real-world relevance, this book should be of interest to disaster scholars and researchers, those working in ethics and political philosophy, as well as policy makers, humanitarian actors and intergovernmental organizations.
Local Note SpringerLink Springer Nature Open Access eBooks
Subject Ethics.
Geology.
Ethics. (OCoLC)fst00915833
Geology. (OCoLC)fst00940627
Added Author O'Mathúna, Dónal P., editor. Editor. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
Dranseika, Vilius, editor. Editor. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
Gordijn, Bert, 1965- editor. Editor. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
Other Form: Print version: Disasters. Cham, Switzerland : SpringerOpen, [2018] 3319927213 (OCoLC)1033513983
Standard No. 10.1007/978-3-319-92722-0 doi
ISBN 9783319927220
3319927221
9783319927213
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