Ecological debt : global warming and the wealth of nations / Andrew Simms.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simms, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental economics.

Environmental protection--Citizen participation.

Environmental protection.

Consumption (Economics)--Environmental aspects.

Consumption (Economics).

Global warming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

--New edition of this highly acclaimed guide-- 'Creative and compelling.' Guardian'Essential reading.' Head of the IPCC 'A new phrase has entered the language.' Anita RoddickThis is the second edition of Andrew Simms's highly regarded guide to ecological

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface to the Second Edition

1. A Short Walk to Venus

2. The Chemist's Warning: a Short History of Global Warming

3. The Heaven Bursters: Tuvalu and the Fate of Nations

4. The Great Reversal of Human Progress

5. Ecological Debt

6. The Carbon Debt

7. Rationalising Self-destruction (Or Why People are More Stupid than Frogs)

8. The Car Park at the End of the World

9. Pay Back Time: the Law, Climate Change and Ecological Debt

10. Data for the Doubtful: the Lessons of War Economies

11. The New Adjustment

12. Minerva's Owl

13. In the Footsteps of Stanley

14. Tick Tock Climate Clock

15. The Ducks' Choice …

16. How to Live on an Island

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-204) and index.

ISBN:

9781783710591

1783710594

9781849643771

1849643776

OCLC:

655848191