Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation: Wartime Mobilisation as a Model for Action?

ISBN-13: 9780815364542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 184 str.

USA) Laurence L (Boston University Delina

Opis

Drawing upon episodes of wartime mobilisations, this book lays out contingency climate action strategies based upon the relative optimism provided by rapid deployment of demonstrated and proven sustainable energy technologies that could effectively abate further emissions. While the book makes use of these historical lessons as blueprint for climate strategies, it also critically examines the appropriateness, limitations and challenges of the contingency plan.

Spis treści

Foreword by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber  Introduction  1. The age of climate consequences  2. A Rapid Mitigation Project  3. Scale, speed, scope  4. Mobilising funding  5. Mobilising labour  6. Legislations, control, oversight  7. Dilemmas, implications  Conclusion

O autorze

Laurence L. Delina conducts research at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, USA. He is also a research associate at the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Boston, an Earth System Governance Research Fellow, and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.