Aligning justice and efficiency in the global climate change regime : a developing country perspective / P.R. Shukla -- The international climate change regime / Daniel Bodansky -- Tackling climate change : five keys to success / Eileen Claussen -- Cities protecting the climate : the local dimension of global environmental governance / Michele M. Betsill, Harriet Bulkeley -- Adaptation, mitigation, and justice / Dale Jamieson -- Ideal decision making and green virtues / Julia Driver -- Responsibility to future generations and the technological transition / Henry Shue -- It's not my / Walter Sinnott-Armstrong -- The long timescales of human-caused climate warming : further challenges for the global policy process / Jerry D. Mahlman -- The global carbon cycle and climate change / William H. Schlesinger -- Watching the canary : climate change in the arctic / John Weatherly -- Climate change mitigation : passing through the eye of the needle? / Michael A. Toman -- Against high discount rates / Richard B. Howarth -- Introduction / Richard B. Howarth, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.

This book explores the interplay between science, economics, politics, and ethics in understanding the challenge that climate change poses to the international community. A central theme is that climate change involves core issues of scientific uncertainty and intergenerational fairness that must be accounted for in the design and implementation of policy responses. Drawing together contributions from leading scholars in a variety of relevant disciplines, this volume provides a synthetic approach to this important topic that should prove valuable to a variety of readers. This series focuses on the interface between geosystems, biosystems, and the political economy. The volumes integrate physical, natural, and social sciences with economics. It encompasses the atomistic and mechanistic epistemology of modern economic analysis.

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