Alligators in the Arctic and How to Avoid Them: Science, Economics and the Challenge of Catastrophic Climate Change

by Peter Dorman

Climate change is a matter of extreme urgency. Integrating science and economics, this book demonstrates the need for measures to put a strict lid on cumulative carbon emissions and shows how to implement them. Using the carbon budget framework, it reveals the shortcomings of current policies and the debates around them, such as the popular enthusiasm for individual solutions and the fruitless search for 'optimal' regulation by economists and other...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 131651627X
• ISBN13: 9781316516270
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"