Resolving the Climate Change Crisis: The Ecological Economics of Climate Change

by Philip Lawn

Book Overview

This book explains why the climate change crisis is a symptom of a much larger underlying problem - namely, humankind's predilection with continuous GDP-growth. Given this starting point, the world's high-income nations must begin the transition to a qualitatively-improving steady-state economy and low-income nations must follow suit at some stage over the next 20-40 years. Unless they do, a well-designed emissions protocol will be as useless as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 940177501X
• ISBN13: 9789401775014
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 628 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"