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A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How We Can Save the World and Create Prosperity
Nicholas Stern
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Description for A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How We Can Save the World and Create Prosperity
Paperback. Hurricanes and storms strike New Orleans and Mumbai; flooding causes devastation in England and Mozambique; and, droughts occur in Australia and Darfur. This work confronts some of the most urgent questions facing us: What are the dangers? How can the world adapt? And what does this mean for us all? Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: RNPG; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 180.
Hurricanes and storms strike New Orleans and Mumbai; flooding causes devastation in England and Mozambique; droughts occur in Australia and Darfur...
Further substantial climate change is unavoidable and the risks to the natural world, the economy and our everyday lives are immense.
Here Lord Stern, a world leading authority on climate change, confronts urgent questions: What are the dangers? How can the world adapt? And what does this mean for us all?
The solutions he gives are provocative, authoritative and inspirational - a blueprint for the future.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099524052
SKU
V9780099524052
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99-1
About Nicholas Stern
Nicholas Stern was Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 2000 to 2003. He is currently the I.G. Patel Chair at the London School of Economics, heading the new India Observatory within the Asia Research Centre. He also chairs the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. He has served as the Second Permanent Secretary ... Read more
Reviews for A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How We Can Save the World and Create Prosperity
The planet owes Nicholas Stern a big thank you...valuable and combative stuff
Guardian
If this year's climate crucial climate change negotiations are successful, this book will be required reading ... Lord Stern, like Al Gore, could be seen as one of the rock stars of global warming.
Fiona Harvey
Financial Times
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Guardian
If this year's climate crucial climate change negotiations are successful, this book will be required reading ... Lord Stern, like Al Gore, could be seen as one of the rock stars of global warming.
Fiona Harvey
Financial Times
Here is a user's ... Read more