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Resolving the Climate Change Crisis The Ecological Economics of Climate Change /

This book explains why the climate change crisis is a symptom of a much larger underlying problem - namely, humankind's predilection with continuous GDP-growth. Given this starting point, the world's high-income nations must begin the transition to a qualitatively-improving steady-state ec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lawn, Philip (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Ecological Economics, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development
  • Chapter 1. Ecological Economics and Climate Change
  • Chapter 2. Sustainable Development and Climate Change
  • Chapter 3. Policies to Achieve Sustainable Development
  •  Chapter 4. A Sustainable Versus a Growth-As-Usual Scenario
  • Part II. Alternative Perspectives of the Climate Change Crisis
  • Chapter  5. A Mainstream Economic Perspective of the Climate Change Crisis
  • Chapter 6. An Ecological Economic Perspective of the Climate Change Crisis
  • Part III.  A Way Forward and the Road to Sustainable Development
  • Chapter 7. The Case for an Emissions-Trading System to Help Resolve the Climate Change Crisis
  • Chapter 8. International Climate Change Institutions and the Greenhouse-Gas Emitting Performance of Nations
  • Chapter 9 Laying the Foundations to Support a New Global Climate Change Protocol
  • Chapter 10. A Post-2020 Protocol and Emissions-Trading Framework to Resolve the Climate Change Crisis.