WHY ARE WE WAITING?

Reviewed 5/01/2022

Why Are We Waiting?, by Nicholas Stern

WHY ARE WE WAITING?
The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change
Nicholas Stern
Richard Layard, M.P. (Fwd.)
Cambridge: The MIT Press, April 2015

Rating:

5.0

High

ISBN-13 978-0-262-02918-6
ISBN-10 0-262-02918-9 406pp. HC/GSI $27.95

Table of Contents

  Foreword by Richard Layard ix
  Preface xi
  Acknowledgments xxi
  Introduction xxvii
PART I: A Planet between Peril and Prosperity
1   The Science: How It Shapes the Economics, Ethics, Politics, and the Possible Prognoses 3
2   Building a New Energy-Industrial Revolution 33
PART II: The Principles and Logic of Policy for Change: Economics and Ethics
3   Politics for Dynamic Change and Transition: Lessons from Economic History and Economic Theory 91
4   How Some Economic Analyses Have Distorted the Issues 131
5   The Ethics of Intertemporal Values and Valuations
6   Broad Approaches to Moral and Political Philosophy: Converging Perspectives 185
PART III: Action around the World: Progress, Collaboration, Equity
7   Developments in Climate Action around the World 211
8   Building National and International Action 247
9   Equity across Peoples and Nations 275
10   Conclusion: How Ideas Change over Time 301
 
  Notes 327
  Sources 365
  Index 399
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