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Environmental protection and an equitable international order: ethics after the Earth Summit

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorSociety for Business Ethics, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:43:22Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:43:22Z
dc.date.issued1995-10
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (pages 751-752).
dc.description.abstractThe UNCED Earth Summit established two new principles of international justice: an equitable international order and protection of the environment. UNCED was a significant symbol, a morality play about environment and economics. Wealth is asymmetrically distributed; approximately one fifth of the world (the G 7 nations) produces and consumes four fifths of goods and services; four fifths (the G 77 nations) get one fifth. This distribution can be interpreted as both an earnings differential and as exploitation. Responses may require justice or charity, producing and sharing. Natural and national resources come into tension with the common heritage of humankind, exemplified in disputes about who owns biodiversity resources. Ethics has to learn planetary home economics.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, III, Environmental Protection and an Equitable International Order: Ethics after the Earth Summit, Business Ethics Quarterly 5, no. 4 (October 1995): 735-752. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3857412
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3857412
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/41096
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles
dc.rights©1995 Society for Business Ethics.
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dc.subjectequitable international order; sustainability
dc.subjectdistribution of wealth
dc.subjectenvironmental justice
dc.subjectcommon heritage of humankind
dc.subjectnatural resources
dc.subjectnational resources
dc.subjectUNCED
dc.subjectUnited Nations conference on environment and development
dc.titleEnvironmental protection and an equitable international order: ethics after the Earth Summit
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