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inequality fairness Climate change-related mortality population ethics D - Microeconomics/D.D6 - Welfare Economics/D.D6.D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement D - Microeconomics/D.D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty/D.D8.D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and UncertaintySujets proches
Populations, Human Human populations Population growth Human population Social inequality Social equality Inequality Egalitarianism Demography DemographicsCiter ce document
Marc Fleurbaey et al., « The welfare implications of climate change-related mortality: Inequality and population ethics », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10670/1.gh547s
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Climate change-related mortality may strongly affect human well-being. By reducing life expectancy, it reduces the well-being of some infividuals. This may exacerbate existing inequalities: ex-ante inequality among people in different groups or regions of the world; ex-post inequality in experienced well-being by people in the same generation. But mortality may also reduce total population size by preventing some individuals from having children. This raises the population-ethical problem of how total population size should be valued. This paper proposes a methodology to measure te welfare effects of climate change through population and inequality change. We illustrate the methodology using a climate-economy integrated assessment model involving endogenous population change due to climate change-related mortality.