L G Meira-Filho’s scientific contributions

... Though such accounts typically are much more detailed than merely holding that one has the right to what one historically has acquired, we include in our set up the principle of grandfathering, holding that distribution of environmental impact rights should be based on the actual status quo distribution of environmental impact. This very simple view probably has no theoretical justification, but we include it because it is widespread in the environmental literature and regulation (Caney, 2009;Houghton, 1995). The selected principles have been translated into equations that allocate the SOS according to the principle as presented in Table 2. ...

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Sharing the safe operating space: Exploring ethical allocation principles to operationalize the planetary boundaries and assess absolute sustainability at individual and industrial sector levels