This volume will include scenarios of geophysical and economic impacts from global warming beyond a doubling of greenhouse gases. Analyses will examine geophysical, ecological, and economic impacts, physical and institutional lags, alternative scenarios with and without policy intervention,...

Climate change and climate change policy raise important issues of intergenerational and international justice. Intergenerational justice requires that CO2 emissions be halted by the middle of this century or shortly thereafter. But since human development requires energy, the elimination of...

Cover -- 1 Erkenntnistheoretischer und naturwissenschaftlicher Befund, Grenzen von Wachstum und Technik und die Nicht-Nachhaltigkeit tradierter westlicher Lebensformen -- A. Problemstellung: Jenseits von Finanzkrise, Flüchtlingskrise, Arbeitsmarkt, Kriegen, Renten, Demographie - und zu ihrer...