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oapen-20.500.12657-230552024-03-22T19:23:37Z Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories O’Mathúna, Dónal P. Dranseika, Vilius Gordijn, Bert Philosophy Ethics Natural disasters Public international law thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy thema EDItEUR::L Law::LB International law::LBB Public international law thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNR Natural disasters 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.. 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T09:01:39Z 2020-04-01T09:01:39Z 2018 book 1007103 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23055 eng Advancing Global Bioethics application/pdf n/a 1007103.pdf https://www.springer.com/9783319927220 Springer Nature 10.1007/978-3-319-92722-0 10.1007/978-3-319-92722-0 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 244 Cham open access
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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..
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