A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity. by Stern, Nicholas - 2009

London: Bodley Head, 2009. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, diagrams, top edge lightly toned, minor edgewear. 246 pp. British economics professor (and author of an influential report on climate change) focuses on the economic management of investment and growth from the perspective of both adaptation and mitigation. The author looks at the most urgent questions facing us now: What is the problem? What are the dangers? What can we do to reduce emissions, at what cost? How can the world adapt? What does this mean for governments, businesses and individuals? This book provides authoritative, inspirational and hopeful answers.