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Gull eller grønne skoger?
HVA SLAGS POLITIKK KAN GI OSS ET BEDRE LIV HER OG NÅ og samtidig sikre økologisk bærekraft? Svaret den siste tiden har ofte blitt «grønn vekst». Problemet er at grønn vekst langt på vei er blitt en besvergelse som maler miljøsakene inn i et retorisk hjørne og legitimerer et samfunn som går i motsatt retning av det de fleste av oss ønsker for oss selv – og for våre barnebarn. Eivind Hoff-Elimari inviterer deg med på en reise til små og store «laboratorier» for det gode, grønne liv – til Bhutan og Ecuador, til Grenoble og et nabolag i Bergen, til et ostepakkeri og et PR-byrå. Her hopper man bukk over premisset om å ensidig bidra til økonomisk vekst – med bred støtte fra folk. Eivind Hoff-Elimari (f. 1976) er spesial-rådgiver i Forskningsrådet der han arbeider med samfunnsvitenskapelig og humanistisk klimaforskning. Han har bakgrunn som miljølobbyist i Brussel, først for WWF og deretter for Bellona.
The Adaptive Challenge of Climate Change
This book presents a new perspective on climate change for researchers and policymakers in the environmental social sciences and humanities.
Gull eller grønne skoger?
HVA SLAGS POLITIKK KAN GI OSS ET BEDRE LIV HER OG NÅ og samtidig sikre økologisk bærekraft? Svaret den siste tiden har ofte blitt «grønn vekst». Problemet er at grønn vekst langt på vei er blitt en besvergelse som maler miljøsakene inn i et retorisk hjørne og legitimerer et samfunn som går i motsatt retning av det de fleste av oss ønsker for oss selv – og for våre barnebarn. Eivind Hoff-Elimari inviterer deg med på en reise til små og store «laboratorier» for det gode, grønne liv – til Bhutan og Ecuador, til Grenoble og et nabolag i Bergen, til et ostepakkeri og et PR-byrå. Her hopper man bukk over premisset om å ensidig bidra til økonomisk vekst – med bred støtte fra folk. Eivind Hoff-Elimari (f. 1976) er spesial-rådgiver i Forskningsrådet der han arbeider med samfunnsvitenskapelig og humanistisk klimaforskning. Han har bakgrunn som miljølobbyist i Brussel, først for WWF og deretter for Bellona.
The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India
This book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India. Uncertainty is a key factor shaping climate and environmental policy at international, national and local levels. Climate change and events such as cyclones, floods, droughts and changing rainfall patterns create uncertainties that planners, resource managers and local populations are regularly confronted with. In this context, uncertainty has emerged as a "wicked problem" for scientists and policymakers, resulting in highly debated and disputed decision-making. The book focuses on India, one of the most climatically vulnerable countries in the world, where there are stark socio-economic inequa...
The Great Leveler
"Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world. Ever since humans began to farm, herd livestock, and pass on their assets to future generations, economic inequality has been a defining feature of ...
Public Policy Values
More and more policy issues involve issues that are explicitly values-based, yet public policy analysis tends to skirt around the question of values. Public Policy Values overcomes this reluctance by showing how public policies enable values-choices to be made, often without seeming to do so.
The Rhetoric of RHETORIC
In this manifesto, distinguished critic Wayne Booth claims that communication in every corner of life can be improved if we study rhetoric closely. Written by Wayne Booth, author of the seminal book, The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961). Explores the consequences of bad rhetoric in education, in politics, and in the media. Investigates the possibility of reducing harmful conflict by practising a rhetoric that depends on deep listening by both sides.
Relic
A thriller packed full of mythical intrigue, about a ground-breaking biblical secret. A golden relic, containing an ancient manuscript that could change the course of history, has been hidden in a monastery. But nobody knows where. One determined man sets out to find this sensational artefact and to trace its origins. His quest takes him via a scientific intelligence organization in London, a Middle Eastern outpost and a Crusaders' castle, as layer by layer he reveals the religous mysteries inside the Shrine of Sacred Secrets.
The Cost-Benefit Revolution
Why policies should be based on careful consideration of their costs and benefits rather than on intuition, popular opinion, interest groups, and anecdotes. Opinions on government policies vary widely. Some people feel passionately about the child obesity epidemic and support government regulation of sugary drinks. Others argue that people should be able to eat and drink whatever they like. Some people are alarmed about climate change and favor aggressive government intervention. Others don't feel the need for any sort of climate regulation. In The Cost-Benefit Revolution, Cass Sunstein argues our major disagreements really involve facts, not values. It follows that government policy should ...
Degrees of Democracy
This book develops and tests a 'thermostatic' model of public opinion and policy and examines both responsiveness and representation across a range of policy domains in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, concluding that representative democratic government functions surprisingly well.
