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Why are we waiting? : the logic, urgency, and promise of tackling climate change
Title:
Why are we waiting? : the logic, urgency, and promise of tackling climate change
Author:
Stern, N. H. (Nicholas Herbert)
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2015]
Physical Description:
xxxv, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Science : how it shapes the economics, ethics, politics, and the possible prognoses -- Building a new energy-industrial revolution -- Policies for dynamic change and transition : lessons from economic history and economic theory -- How some economic analyses have distorted the issues -- Ethics of intertemporal values and valuations -- Broad approaches to moral and political philosophy : converging perspectives -- Developments in climate action around the world -- Building national and international action -- Equity across peoples and nations -- How ideas change over time.
ISBN:
9780262029186
Format :
Book