Climate Policy Revolution (Record no. 26604)
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| fixed length control field | 02199nam a22001577a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780674972124 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 363.73874561 |
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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Kupers , Roland |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Climate Policy Revolution |
| Sub Title | : What the Science of Complexity Reveals about Saving Our Planet |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Cambridge |
| Name of publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year of publication | 2020 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 174p. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Include Index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The sheer complexity of climate change stops most solutions in their tracks. How do we give up fossil fuels when energy is connected to everything, from great-power contests to the value of your pension? Global economic growth depends on consumption, but that also produces the garbage now choking the oceans. To give up cars, coal, or meat would upend industries and entire ways of life. Faced with seemingly impossible tradeoffs, politicians dither and economists offer solutions at the margins, all while we flirt with the sixth extinction. That's why humanity's last best hope is the young science of complex systems. Quitting coal, making autonomous cars ubiquitous, ending the middle-class addiction to consumption: all necessary to head off climate catastrophe, all deemed fantasies by pundits and policymakers, and all plausible in a complex systems view. Roland Kupers shows how we have already broken the interwoven path dependencies that make fundamental change so daunting. Consider the mid-2000s, when, against all predictions, the United States rapidly switched from a reliance on coal primarily to natural gas. The change required targeted regulations, a few lone investors, independent researchers, and generous technology subsidies. But in a stunningly short period of time, shale oil nudged out coal, and carbon dioxide emissions dropped by 10 percent. Kupers shows how to replicate such patterns in order to improve transit, reduce plastics consumption, and temper the environmental impact of middle-class diets. Whether dissecting China's Ecological Civilization or the United States' Green New Deal, Kupers describes what's folly, what's possible, and which solutions just might work. |
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| Topical Term | Climatic changes--Government policy |
| Form subdivision | Complexity (Philosophy) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Bill Date | Full call number | Accession Number | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| NASSDOC Library | NASSDOC Library | 23/02/2021 | Overseas Press India Private Limited | 1606.96 | 2021-02-18 | 363.73874561 KUP-C | 51308 | 2201.32 | 23/02/2021 | Books |