Introduction -- Sustainable Public Debt: Theory and Empirical Evidence -- Debt and Growth: A Basic Endogenous Growth Model -- Productive Government Spending, Public Debt and Growth -- Government Debt and Human Capital Formation -- Debt and Growth: Empirical Evidence -- Conclusion.

1. Introduction -- 2. The Ideological Trick of Climate Change and Sustainability -- 3. Words Count: the Role of Language in Overcoming Climate Inertia -- 4. Measuring Complex Socio-Economic Phenomena. Conceptual and Methodological Issues -- 5. Glaciers: Vanishing Elements of our Mountains and...

The book is an edited collection of contributions by a distinguished international panel of academics on the main scientific, juridical, and economic aspects involved in the mitigation and adaptation processes imposed by climate change. Explicitly interdisciplinary, the book transversally cuts...