From: glevy@pratt.edu
Date: Thu Mar 27 2008 - 20:47:10 EDT
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:49:03 -0400 From: GDAEAnnounce@tufts.edu Subject: New Working Paper on Climate Change GDAE announces the publication of a new working paper by Neva Goodwin: AN OVERVIEW OF CLIMATE CHANGE: What does it mean for our way of life? What is the best future we can hope for? This paper discusses whether climate change will require a significant reduction of consumption among the richer people in the world, and ends with the most optimistic picture the author can conjure up, of the world in the year 2075. That hopeful picture is of a world in which inequalities – among and within nations – have been substantially reduced. The challenges and adjustments confronting humanity in the coming decades provide an opportunity that could be used to mitigate climate change in ways that can improve the circumstances of the poor. Ecological reasons to reduce throughput of energy and materials in economic systems will require the abandonment of high-consumption life-styles. The 21st century will be an era of many losses, but it is conceivable that societies will successfully make the transition from goals of economic growth, as understood in the 20th century, to goals of maintaining and increasing sustainable well-being. The working paper is available at: http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/wp/08-01OverviewOfClimateChange.pdf For more on GDAE’s climate change work and publications go to:http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/ClimateChange.html Also available from GDAE: ECONOMICS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE This new version of the teaching module Economics of Global Climate Change includes coverage of the Nobel-Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 report and the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, as well as new text boxes on discounting, climate tipping points and surprises, and the European Union carbon trading system. This and other teaching modules, designed for use as supplements in undergraduate-level courses, are available in Adobe Acrobat format. Topics include: trade, global climate change, corporate power, consumption, tax equity, and environmental justice. The module on Corporate Power in a Global Economy has also been updated with new data for 2008 use. All GDAE teaching modules are available for FREE download at: http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/education_materials/modules.html _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
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