Nach dem vieldiskutierten Bericht an den Club of Rome von 1972 wurde die Debatte um die Zukunftsaussichten unseres Planeten in mehreren Updates fortgesetzt. An beiden Berichten war der norwegische Zukunftsforscher J. Randers beteiligt während G. Maxton sich in "Die Wachstumslüge" ebenfalls mit...

Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, national governments have introduced a range of policy measures designed to steer their economies along a more sustainable path. Yet how are we to know how successful these have been? This significant new book discusses the ways in which sustainable...

The book investigates various strategies to provide countries with an incentive to accede, agree and comply to an international environmental agreement (IEA). Finus shows that by integrating real world restrictions into a model, game theory is a powerful tool for explaining the divergence...

Models are used to estimate potential physical and biological impacts, efficient adaptations, and residual damages from climate change. The contributors cover a broad array of climate change impacts on affected market sectors (including water supply, agriculture, coastal resources, timber, and...

This book analyses the policy mixes that provide the best possible incentives for firms and governments to act on climate change and sign up to international climate agreements. In doing so, the authors address a multitude of related issues including the linkages between flexible mechanisms and...

How did climate change become an economic issue? Why is economic discourse so influential on the public policy of climate change? How can it best contribute to the scientific and public debates? Nine eminent scholars explain in this book both how economics has changed environmental understanding...

Instruments for Climate Policy focuses on economic and political aspects related to the recent proposals and the debate on limits in flexibility, and discusses EU and US perspectives on climate policy instruments and strategies. This is followed by chapters on economic efficiency and the use of...

Key environmental issues, such as biodiversity and climate change, have in recent years become more pressing than ever. Where the critical papers in the early 1990s explained the difficulties of cooperation in tackling transboundary environmental problems, later works have analyzed the various...

Jason Hickel rechnet mit dem Kapitalismus ab: Statt alle Menschen aus den Fängen der Armut zu befreien, hat unsere Art zu wirtschaften ein Leben voll künstlicher Verknappung, sozialer Ungerechtigkeit und Umweltzerstörung hervorgebracht IBM angetrieben von einer Elite, die immer reicher wird....