Steve Vanderheiden

Vanderheiden S. ETHICAL THEORY AND MORAL PRACTICE . 19 (2) (April 01, 2016): 297-311. Abstract: Contemporary persons are daily confronted with enormous quantities of information, some of which reveal causal connections between their actions and harm that is visited upon distant others. Given their limited cognitive and information processing capacities,...

Vanderheiden S. Sci Eng Ethics (November 29, 2016). Abstract: Scholars concerned with abuses of the ‘‘resource privilege’’ by the governments of developing states sometimes call for national sovereignty over the natural resources that lie within its borders. While such claims may resist a key driver of the ‘‘resource curse’’ when...

Vanderheiden S. Midwest Studies In Philosophy . 40 (1) (September 2016): 27-42. Abstract: Climate justice scholars have in recent years devoted considerable attention to the development and application of justice principles and frameworks to the architecture of global climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts. The resulting scholarly literature is now...

Vanderheiden S. JOURNAL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY . 13 (1) (January 01, 2016): 1-27. Abstract: Does the receipt of benefits from some common resource create an obligation to contribute toward its maintenance? If so, what is the basis of this obligation? I consider whether individual contributions to climate change can be...

VANDERHEIDEN SJ. Taiwan Human Rights Journal . 3 (3) (2016): 3-26. Abstract: Among the challenges posed by human-caused climate change are issues of justice and democracy, in how the environmental problem is expected to affect human social and economic systems and in the response taken by states and the international...