
Dr. Laura García Portela
- Scientific staff
- Research group “Philosophy of Engineering, Technology Assessment, and Science”
- Room: 208 in Douglasstr. 24
- Phone: +49 721 608-26889
- laura garcia-portela ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
Postfach 3640
76021 Karlsruhe
Professional background
2021 - 2022 | Postdoc researcher in the project “Principles of Ethical Decision-Making in Environmental Practice”, University of Fribourg (Switzerland) |
2018 - 2021 | Doctoral student at the Department of Philosophy and Doctoral Program in Climate Change, University of Graz |
2014 - 2017 | Research assistant at University of Valencia |
Selected publications
García-Portela, L. (2022)
Backward-looking principles of climate justice: the unjustified move from the Polluter Pays Principle to the Beneficiary Pays Principle. Res Publica: a journal of moral, legal and social philosophy. (online first)
García-Portela, L. (2022)
Can Consumption-Based Emissions Accounting solve the problem of historical emissions? Some skeptical remarks. Ethics, Policy and the Environment 25 (3)
Garcia-Portela, L. (2020)
Moral Responsibility for Climate Change Loss and Damage: A response to the Excusable Ignorance Objection. Teorema. International Journal of Philosophy 1 (39): 7-24
Garcia-Portela, L. (2019)
Individual Compensatory Duties for Historical Emissions and the Dead-Polluters Objection, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 32 (4), pp. 591-609
Garcia-Portela, L. (2019)
Two Mutually Exclusive Concepts of Harm? Retrospective and Structural Wrongful Harm at the Bases of a Compensatory-Based Approach for Loss and Damage. Ethics, Policy & Environment, 21 (3)
Publications
Overstating the effects of anthropogenic climate change? A critical assessment of attribution methods in climate science
2023. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 13 (1), 17. doi:10.1007/s13194-023-00516-x