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  1. Climate shock
    the economic consequences of a hotter planet
    Author: Wagner, Gernot; Weitzman, Martin L.
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    "If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a 10... more

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    Hertie School, Library and Information Services
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    "If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a 10 percent chance this might eventually lead to a catastrophe beyond anything we could imagine, why aren't we doing more about climate change right now? We insure our lives against an uncertain future--why not our planet? ... [the authors] explore in lively, clear terms the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing on and expanding from work previously unavailable to general audiences. They show that the longer we wait to act, the more likely an extreme event will happen. A city might go underwater. A rogue nation might shoot particles into the Earth's atmosphere, geoengineering cooler temperatures. Zeroing in on the unknown extreme risks that may yet dwarf all else, the authors look at how economic forces that make sensible climate policies difficult to enact, make radical would-be fixes like geoengineering all the more probable. What we know about climate change is alarming enough. What we don't know about the extreme risks could be far more dangerous. Wagner and Weitzman help readers understand that we need to think about climate change in the same way that we think about insurance - as a risk management problem, only here, on a global scale"--Publisher's description

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0691171327; 9780691171326; 9780691159478; 0691159475
    RVK Categories: EC 1879 ; AR 23100
    Edition: Third printing, first paperback printing with a new preface by the authors
    Subjects: Klimawandel; Wirkungsanalyse; Klimapolitik; Umweltbewusstsein; Climatic changes; Climatic changes ; Economic aspects
    Scope: xiii, 250 pages, illustrations, 21 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-242) and index
  2. Climate shock
    the economic consequences of a hotter planet
    Author: Wagner, Gernot; Weitzman, Martin L.
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    "If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a 10... more

    Location:
    Hertie School, Library and Information Services
    Signature:
    K.08.01_21
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
    Location:
    Hertie School, Library and Information Services
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    K.08.01_21+1
    Inter-library loan:
    No loan of volumes, only paper copies will be sent

     

    "If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a 10 percent chance this might eventually lead to a catastrophe beyond anything we could imagine, why aren't we doing more about climate change right now? We insure our lives against an uncertain future--why not our planet? ... [the authors] explore in lively, clear terms the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing on and expanding from work previously unavailable to general audiences. They show that the longer we wait to act, the more likely an extreme event will happen. A city might go underwater. A rogue nation might shoot particles into the Earth's atmosphere, geoengineering cooler temperatures. Zeroing in on the unknown extreme risks that may yet dwarf all else, the authors look at how economic forces that make sensible climate policies difficult to enact, make radical would-be fixes like geoengineering all the more probable. What we know about climate change is alarming enough. What we don't know about the extreme risks could be far more dangerous. Wagner and Weitzman help readers understand that we need to think about climate change in the same way that we think about insurance - as a risk management problem, only here, on a global scale." -- Publisher's description

     
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0691171327; 9780691171326; 9780691159478; 0691159475
    RVK Categories: EC 1879 ; AR 23100
    Edition: Third printing, first paperback printing with a new preface by the authors
    Subjects: Klimawandel; Wirkungsanalyse; Klimapolitik; Umweltbewusstsein; Climatic changes; Climatic changes ; Economic aspects
    Scope: xiii, 250 pages, illustrations, 21 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-242) and index