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"Contents" [2006] ELECD 473; in Tremmel, Chet Joerg (ed), "Handbook of Intergenerational Justice" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006)

Book Title: Handbook of Intergenerational Justice

Editor(s): Tremmel, Chet Joerg

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781845429003

Section Title: Contents

Extract:

Contents


List of figures vii
List of tables viii
Contributors ix

Introduction 1

PART I FOUNDATIONS AND DEFINITIONS OF
GENERATIONAL JUSTICE

1. Responsibility for future generations ­ scope and limits 23
Dieter Birnbacher
2. Principles of generational justice 39
Christoph Lumer
3. The impossibility of a theory of intergenerational justice 53
Wilfred Beckerman
4. John Rawls on the rights of future generations 72
Claus Dierksmeier
5. Justice between generations: the limits of procedural justice 86
Michael Wallack
6. Rule change and intergenerational justice 106
Axel Gosseries and Mathias Hungerbühler
7. The Economic Sustainability Indicator 129
Peer Ederer, Philipp Schuller and Stephan Willms
8. Protecting future generations: intergenerational
buck-passing, theoretical ineptitude and a brief for
a global core precautionary principle 148
Stephen M. Gardiner
9. Institutional determinants of public debt: a political
economy perspective 170
Bernd Süssmuth and Robert K. von Weizsäcker


PART II INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF
GENERATIONAL JUSTICE

10. Establishing intergenerational justice in national constitutions 187
Joerg Chet Tremmel

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11. A constitutional law for future generations ­ the `other' form
of the social contract: the generation contract 215
Peter Häberle
12. The French Constitutional Charter for the
environment: an effective instrument? 230
Dominique Bourg
13. Commission for Future Generations in the Knesset:
lessons learnt 244
Shlomo Shoham and Nira Lamay
14. Institutional protection of succeeding generations ­
Ombudsman for Future Generations in Hungary 282
Benedek Jávor
15. The role of CPB in Dutch economic policy 299
Rocus van Opstal and Jacqueline Timmerhuis
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