CAPPE

  • CSU
  • University of Melbourne

CURRENT RESEARCH

Emerging and Converging Technologies Program:

    This program deals with risks and responsibilities relating to research into technologies that combine with or add to existing technologies, including ethical issues in bio/nanotechnology, computing and IT. More

Poverty Program:

    This program focuses on building an ethically and empirically based account of what development is, what standards it ought to use, and the like. Issues addressed include the measurement of poverty and global minimal labour standards. More

Health Program:

    This program will conduct research in relation to a range of interconnected ethical issues in the public health domain. More

Ecology Program:

    This program focuses on a number of central ethical issues arising in the economic sphere, including corporate responsibility and economic corruption More

Economy Program:

    This program focuses on a number of central ethical issues arising in the economic sphere, including corporate responsibility and economic corruption More

Security Program:

    This program focuses on the ethical dimensions of a range of current domestic and international security problems, including ethical issues pertaining to terrorism, crime, and humanitarian intervention. More

WHAT'S NEW

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MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

Multimedia Centre

ONLINE

PhD Candidate Adam Henschke Australia Talks on Privacy.

Public Ethics Radio

New Program:Joy Gordon on Iraq Sanctions

 


CAPPE Canberra Seminar

CAPPE Canberra Seminars will start for 2012 in February. Watch this space!

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Conferences

 

Workshop: Designing Just Institutions for Global Climate Governance (June 30 - 1 July). Click here for details

Past News



Professor Steven Vanderheiden

Justice and the Human Good

 

Steve.Vanderheiden@anu.edu.au
View my cv (.pdf)

MA, PhD

Biography

Steven Vanderheiden’s research focuses on Climate Change ethics.

 

Fields of special interest

  • Normative Political Theory
  • Environmental Politics

 

Publications

Journal Articles

“Radical Environmentalism in an Age of Antiterrorism", Environmental Politics,vol. 17, no. 2, April 2008: 299-318.

 

Books

Atmospheric Justice: A political Theory of Climate Change (monograph), New York: Oxford University Press (March 2008)

Political Theory and Global Climate Change (edited volume), Cambridge, MA:The MIT Press (November 2008)