Debates regarding purported negative effects of video games have raged among scholars, clinicians and in the public arena. Surveys of both scholars and the general public reveal wide discrepancies in beliefs about the potential harmfulness of video games, and some evidence suggests that a ‘‘generational divide’’ may be at play. The current study examines this in a sample of 109 clinicians and c...

The ideas of social justice between members the same generation and different generations are described in scientific literature as main normative principles sustainable development. Distribution public resources can be considered fair honest, when each successive expect care benefits previous generation. But, modern world, it is almost impossible. Are there any intergenerational conflicts Latv...

Abstract This article considers whether any interpretation of the idea equal claims to natural world can resolve Canyon Dilemma (i.e. justify protecting Grand but not a small canyon from mining by poor generation). It first and ultimately rejects subjecting resource rights an intergenerational division. then demonstrates that pluralist theory environmental justice committed both respect for sep...

The evaluation of long-term e ects of climate change in cost-bene t analysis has a long tradition in environmental economics. Since the publication of the Stern Review in 2006 the debate about the "appropriate" discounting of future welfare and utility levels was revived and the most renowned scholars of the profession participated in this debate. In two recent contributions in Environmental an...

The interests of children in a climate-challenged future are under-represented within UK policy-making and public discourse. Debates on intergenerational equity have centred economic logic rather than the moral issue harms to next generation, or responsibilities today’s generation. Civil movements play an important role changing political thinking this issue; however, research climate justice a...

In this paper, we found that fairness judgments in intergenerational allocation decisions depend on (1) individuals’ position in the intergenerational sequence (i.e., whether they are in the preceding or succeeding generation), (2) the amount of uncertainty about the effect of the preceding generation’s decisions on the succeeding one, and (3) whether the preceding generation is primed with pow...

In this paper I offer a fairly complete account of the idea of social discount rates as applied to public policy analysis. I show that those rates are neither ethical primitives nor observables as market rates of return on investment, but that they ought instead to be derived from economic forecasts and society's conception of distributive justice concerning the allocation of goods and services...

In this paper we argue that traditional approaches to risk assessment should be supplemented by an explicit discussion of the moral acceptability of nuclear technology and the risks it poses. The introduction of nuclear energy in society should be seen as an ongoing social experiment, whose (moral) acceptability should continuously be addressed. Given the long-term risks of nuclear energy, inte...

Scholars in philosophy, law, economics, and other fields have widely debated how science, environmental precaution, and economic interests should be balanced in urgent contemporary problems such as climate change. One controversial focus of these discussions is the precautionary principle, according to which scientific uncertainty should not be a reason for delay in the face of serious threats ...