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A blueprint for a safer planet : how to manage climate change and create a new era of progress and prosperity
- Title
- A blueprint for a safer planet : how to manage climate change and create a new era of progress and prosperity / Nicholas Stern.
- Author
- Stern, N. H. (Nicholas Herbert)
- Publication
- London : Bodley Head, 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HC79.E5 S7445 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 246 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Urther substantial climate change is unavoidable and the risks to the natural world, the economy and our everyday lives are immense. The way we live in the next thirty years - how we invest, use energy, organise transport and treat forests - will determine whether these risks become realities. Although poor countries - the least responsible for climate change - will be hit earliest and hardest, all countries must adapt to the effects: hurricanes and storms strike New Orleans and Mumbai; flooding causes devastation in England and Mozambique; droughts occur in Australia and Darfur; and sea level rise will affect Florida and Bangladesh."
- "Lord Stern, author of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and former Chief Economist at the World Bank, is the world's leading authority on what we can do in the face of such unprecedented threat. Action on climate change will require the greatest possible international collaboration, but if successful will ensure not just our future, but our future prosperity. Focusing on the economic management of investment and growth from the perspective of both adaptation and mitigation, Stern confronts the most urgent questions facing us now: what is the problem; what are the dangers; what can be done to reduce emissions, at what cost; how can the world adapt; and, what does all this mean for corporations, governments and individuals. A Blueprint for a Safer Planet provides authoritative, inspirational, and hopeful, answers."--Jacket.
- Alternative Title
- Global deal : climate change and the creation of a new era of progress and prosperity
- Subjects
- Welt
- Klimaschutz
- Nachhaltige Entwicklung
- Umweltpolitik
- Klimaveränderung
- Sustainable development
- Environmental economics
- Carbon dioxide mitigation
- Environmental policy > Economic aspects
- Global warming
- Politique de l'environnement
- Coopération internationale
- Economie de l'environnement
- Contrôle d'émission
- Développement durable
- Changement climatique
- sustainable development
- global warming
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-231) and index.
- Contents
- Why there is a problem and how we can deal with it -- The dangers -- How emissions can be reduced, and at what cost -- Adapting to climate change -- Ethics, discounting and the case for action -- Policies to reduce emissions -- Individual, firms, communities: the power of example -- The structure of a global deal -- Building and sustaining action -- A planet in peril.
- ISBN
- 9781847920379
- 1847920373
- 1847920381
- 9781847920386
- LCCN
- 2009437490
- OCLC
- ocn288915921
- 288915921
- SCSB-14703798
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library