Author: Scott Barrett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199286096
Size: 34.34 MB
Format: PDF
View: 7685
Get Books
Sovereign states need to cooperate in protecting their shared environmental resources such as the ozone layer, the entirety of the earth's biosphere and the global climate. Scott Barrett offers a reasoned argument on why the international treaty should be the route for achieving this end.
Language: en
Pages: 437
Pages: 437
Sovereign states need to cooperate in protecting their shared environmental resources such as the ozone layer, the entirety of the earth's biosphere and the global climate. Scott Barrett offers a reasoned argument on why the international treaty should be the route for achieving this end.
Language: en
Pages:
Pages:
Language: en
Pages: 456
Pages: 456
Environmental problems like global climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion can only be remedied if states cooperate with one another. But sovereign states usually care only about their own interests. So states must somehow restructure the incentives to make cooperation pay. This is what treaties are meant to do. A
Language: en
Pages: 384
Pages: 384
This book honours Partha Dasgupta, and the field he helped establish; environment and development economics. It concerns the relationship between social systems (to include families, local communities, national economies, and the world as a whole) and natural systems (critical ecosystems, forests, water resources, mineral deposits, pollution, fisheries, and the Earth's
Language: en
Pages: 446
Pages: 446
Environmental problems like global climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion can only be remedied if states cooperate with one another. But sovereign states usually care only about their own interests. So states must somehow restructure the incentives to make cooperation pay. This is what treaties are meant to do. A
Language: de
Pages: 264
Pages: 264
Mit dem Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts stehen weitere dramatische Umwälzungen in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft an der Tagesordnung. Der Bericht untersucht Chancen und Risiken wirtschaftlicher, gesellschaftlicher und technologischer Natur.
Language: de
Pages: 256
Pages: 256
Angenommen, Sie hätten ein zehnprozentiges Risiko, bei einem Verkehrsunfall ums Leben zu kommen. Oder Sie hätten ein ebenso hohes Risiko, großen finanziellen Schaden zu erleiden. Wahrscheinlich würden Sie alles daransetzen, eine solche Katastrophe abzuwenden. Richtig? Warum unternehmen wir dann nicht viel mehr, um unseren Planeten vor dem Klimawandel zu schützen?
Language: de
Pages: 443
Pages: 443
Die internationale Klimapolitik ist an einem Wendepunkt angekommen. Die Annahme des Kyoto-Protokolls ist ein großer Schritt in dem Versuch der Menschheit, die schädlichen Folgen des Klimawandels zu begrenzen. Dieses Buch, geschrieben von zwei deutschen Experten, erklärt die naturwissenschaftlichen, ökonomischen sowie politischen Bedingungen desTreibhauseffekts und erläutert die Hintergründe der Annahme des
Language: de
Pages:
Pages:
Books about Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes
Language: en
Pages: 424
Pages: 424
In the crowded field of climate change reports, 'WDR 2010' uniquely: emphasizes development; takes an integrated look at adaptation and mitigation; highlights opportunities in the changing competitive landscape; and proposes policy solutions grounded in analytic work and in the context of the political economy of reform.