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...

Spätestens seit "Fridays for Future" ist das Thema "Klimawandel" als eines der dringlichsten Probleme unserer Zeit erkannt worden. Doch trotz eindeutiger Verpflichtungen zu den Zielen des Pariser Weltklimaabkommens sind wir weit davon entfernt, diese auch zu erreichen - warum? Ihre Argumente...

"This book revisits a distinction introduced in 1921 by economists Frank Knight and John Maynard Keynes: that between statistically predictable future events ("risks") and statistically unpredictable, uncertain events ("uncertainties"). Governments have generally ignored the latter, perceiving...