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

• Main Author: Lawn, Philip (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Climate change.; Sustainable development.; Economic policy.; Development economics.; Environmental economics.; Economics.; Environmental Economics.; Climate Change.; Sustainable Development.; Development Economics.; Economic Policy.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Part I. Ecological Economics, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development
• Chapter 1. Ecological Economics and Climate Change
• Chapter 2. Sustainable Development and Climate Change
• Chapter 3. Policies to Achieve Sustainable Development
•  Chapter 4. A Sustainable Versus a Growth-As-Usual Scenario
• Part II. Alternative Perspectives of the Climate Change Crisis
• Chapter  5. A Mainstream Economic Perspective of the Climate Change Crisis
• Chapter 6. An Ecological Economic Perspective of the Climate Change Crisis
• Part III.  A Way Forward and the Road to Sustainable Development
• Chapter 7. The Case for an Emissions-Trading System to Help Resolve the Climate Change Crisis
• Chapter 8. International Climate Change Institutions and the Greenhouse-Gas Emitting Performance of Nations
• Chapter 9 Laying the Foundations to Support a New Global Climate Change Protocol
• Chapter 10. A Post-2020 Protocol and Emissions-Trading Framework to Resolve the Climate Change Crisis.