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

By: Series: The Lionel Robbins lecturesPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2015]Description: xxxv, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780262029186 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.738/74 23
LOC classification:
  • QC903 .S833 2015
Contents:
The 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 -- The 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 -- Conclusion: How ideas change over time.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The 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 -- The 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 -- Conclusion: How ideas change over time.

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