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Why are we waiting? : the logic, urgency, and promise of tackling climate change / Nicholas Stern

Author
Stern, N. H. (Nicholas Herbert)
Additional Titles
Logic, urgency, and promise of tackling climate change
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxxv, 406 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I A Planet between Peril and Prosperity; 1 The Science: How It Shapes the Economics, Ethics, Politics, and the Possible Prognoses; 2 Building a New Energy-Industrial Revolution; Part II The Principles and Logic of Policy for Change: Economics and Ethics; 3 Policies for Dynamic Change and Transition: Lessons from Economic History and Economic Theory; 4 How Some Economic Analyses Have Distorted the Issues; 5 The Ethics of Intertemporal Values and Valuations. and 6 Broad Approaches to Moral and Political Philosophy: Converging PerspectivesPart III Action around the World: Progress, Collaboration, Equity; 7 Developments in Climate Action around the World; 8 Building National and International Action; 9 Equity across Peoples and Nations; 10 Conclusion: How Ideas Change over Time; Notes; Sources; Index.
Summary
An urgent case for climate change action that forcefully sets out, in economic, ethical, and political terms, the dangers of delay and the benefits of action.
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9780262329200 (electronic bk.)
0262329204 (electronic bk.)
9780262329217 (electronic bk.)
0262329212 (electronic bk.)
9780262029186
0262029189
9780262529983
026252998X
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-398) and index.
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