Synopsis
We have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there’s no stopping it. The question, according to Matthew Kahn, is not how we’re going to avoid a hotter future but how we’re going to adapt to it. In Climatopolis, Kahn, one of the world’s foremost experts on the economics of the environment, argues that cities and regions will adapt to rising temperatures over time, slowly transforming our everyday lives as we change our behaviors and our surroundings. Taking the reader on a tour of the world’s cities from New York to Beijing to MumbaiKahn’s clear-eyed, engaging, and optimistic message presents a positive yet realistic picture of what our urban future will look like.
About Matthew E. Kahn
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Matthew E. Kahn is a professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, the UCLA Department of Economics, and the UCLA Department of Public Policy. He is also research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He lives in Los Angeles.
Published September 7, 2010
by Basic Books.
284 pages
Genres:
Business & Economics, Nature & Wildlife, Science & Math, Political & Social Sciences.
Non-fiction