Intergenerational justice: rights and responsibilities in an intergenerational polity

New York: Routledge (2009)
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Focusing on contemporary social issues-- the environmental crisis, population growth and demographic change, and the question of whether reparations are owed to indigenous peoples--this study presents a theory of intergenerational justice that gives citizens duties to past and future generations, and explains what relationships between contemporary generations count as fair

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