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Author Stern, N. H. (Nicholas Herbert)

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

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2015]

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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  363.738 STERN    Check Shelf
Description xxxv, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series The Lionel Robbins lectures
Lionel Robbins lectures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Climatic changes -- Economic aspects.
Climatic changes -- Government policy.
Environmental policy -- Economic aspects.
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst00864236
Climatic changes -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst00864245
Environmental policy -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst00913270
ISBN 9780262029186 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262029189 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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