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This book deals with various aspects of the 'commons' problems;
focuses on water-related issues; looks at writings in the
conservation area, with particular emphasis on irreversibility and
uncertainty; and examines the role of natural resources in economic
development.
This volume was assembled by two of Dr. Wantrup's students as a
complement to his textbook, Resource Conservation: Economics and
Policies. Wantrup's ideas on conservation economics continued to
evolve in ways that were never fully reflected in that text, and
although for the student of natural resource economics it is still
essential reading, to stop there is to have missed some of his most
valuable insights.
'Imagine the pride of earning the Nobel Prize for warning that CFCs
were destroying the ozone layer. Then imagine that citizens,
policymakers, and business executives heeded the warning and
transformed markets to protect the earth. This book is the story of
why we can all be optimistic about the future if we are willing to
be brave and dedicated world citizens.' MARIO MOLINA, Nobel
Laureate in Chemistry and Professor, University of California This
book tells how the Montreal Protocol, the most successful global
environmental agreement so far, stimulated the development and
worldwide transfer of technologies to protect the ozone
layer.Technology transfer is the crux of the 230 international
environmental treaties and is essential to fighting climate change.
While debate rages about obstacles to technology transfer, until
now there has been no comprehensive assessment of what actually
works to remove the obstacles. The authors, leaders in the field,
assess over 1000 technology transfer projects funded under the
Montreal Protocol's Multilateral Fund and the Global Environment
Facility, and identify lessons that can be applied to technology
transfer for climate change.
In the 1970s the world became aware of a huge danger: the
destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer by CFCs escaping into
the atmosphere, and the damage this could do to human health and
the food chain. So great was the threat that by 1987 the UN had
succeeded in coordinating an international treaty to phase out
emissions; which, over the following 15 years has been implemented.
It has been hailed as an outstanding success. It needed the
participation of all the parties: governments, industry,
scientists, campaigners, NGOs and the media, and is a model for
future treaties. This volume provides the authoritative and
comprehensive history of the whole process from the earliest
warning signs to the present. It is an invaluable record for all
those involved and a necessary reference for future negotiations to
a wide range of scholars, students and professionals.
We have a decade or less to radically slow global warming before we
risk hitting irreversible tipping points that will lock in
catastrophic climate change. The good news is that we know how to
slow global warming enough to avert disaster. Cut Super Climate
Pollutants Now! explains how a 10-year sprint to cut short-lived
"super climate pollutants" -- primarily HFC refrigerants, black
carbon (soot), and methane -- can cut the rate of global warming in
half, so we can stay in the race to net zero climate emissions by
2050.
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