Averting Catastrophe
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| Author | : Cass R. Sunstein |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 175 |
| Release | : 2021-04-27 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1479808482 |
Best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein examines how to avoid worst-case scenarios The world is increasingly confronted with new challenges related to climate change, globalization, disease, and technology. Governments are faced with having to decide how much risk is worth taking, how much destruction and death can be tolerated, and how much money should be invested in the hopes of avoiding catastrophe. Lacking full information, should decision-makers focus on avoiding the most catastrophic outcomes? When should extreme measures be taken to prevent as much destruction as possible? Averting Catastrophe explores how governments ought to make decisions in times of imminent disaster. Cass R. Sunstein argues that using the “maximin rule,” which calls for choosing the approach that eliminates the worst of the worst-case scenarios, may be necessary when public officials lack important information, and when the worst-case scenario is too disastrous to contemplate. He underscores this argument by emphasizing the reality of “Knightian uncertainty,” found in circumstances in which it is not possible to assign probabilities to various outcomes. Sunstein brings foundational issues in decision theory in close contact with real problems in regulation, law, and daily life, and considers other potential future risks. At once an approachable introduction to decision-theory and a provocative argument for how governments ought to handle risk, Averting Catastrophe offers a definitive path forward in a world rife with uncertainty.
| Author | : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on International Economics |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 16 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : Economic forecasting |
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| Author | : Martin Zapf |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2022-09-20 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 3110777584 |
Humanity has so far failed to respect some essential compatibility limits to ensure sustainable development. Is it possible to change the course? This book revolves around this question, focusing on climate change. Averting Climate Catastrophe Together addresses the necessity of meeting the Paris Agreement temperature target and explores what framework could enable climate action in an effective, efficient and equitable manner that is consistent with that goal. It also looks at the contribution of technological change within the economic system, including the feasibility of a global energy transition. Whether humanity can avoid catastrophic climate change appears to depend not on the availability of technological solutions, but rather on international cooperation and coordination. Given the various sustainability issues, this book also discusses whether it is possible to derive a general approach to them. It argues that dealing with compatibility limits in complex systems requires a holistic change in the system structure. Therefore, systems science is discussed together with economics, technological change, and sustainable development. This book targets scientists and experts from different disciplines due to the interdisciplinary topic, but especially from environmental economics and energy technology; policy makers, as policy recommendations are provided to address climate change; as well as the general public due to the pressing common challenge of addressing climate change and comprehensive efforts for sustainable development. Provides evidence based on climate science research on the necessity of meeting the Paris Agreement temperature target Highlights the feasibility of the global energy transition as one major option to mitigate climate change, also going into detail about the process of technological change Brings together systems science with economics, technological change, and sustainable development Derives a framework to meet the Paris Agreement temperature target, enabling coordinated climate action in an effective and efficient manner while pursuing distributive justice
| Author | : Mary M. Keys |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2006-09-18 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9780521864732 |
| Author | : Gareth Dylan Smith |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2020-04-13 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0429559968 |
Eudaimonia: Perspectives for Music Learning asserts the fertile applications of eudaimonia—an Aristotelian concept of human flourishing intended to explain the nature of a life well lived—for work in music learning and teaching in the 21st century. Drawing insights from within and beyond the field of music education, contributors reflect on what the "good life" means in music, highlighting issues at the core of the human experience and the heart of schooling and other educational settings. This pursuit of personal fulfillment through active engagement is considered in relation to music education as well as broader social, political, spiritual, psychological, and environmental contexts. Especially pertinent in today’s complicated and contradictory world, Eudaimonia: Perspectives for Music Learning is a concise compendium on this oft-overlooked concept, providing musicians with an understanding of an ethically-guided and socially-meaningful music-learning paradigm.
| Author | : Edward Jenks |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 1906 |
| Genre | : England |
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| Author | : Dorothy Brewster |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 1922 |
| Genre | : English fiction |
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| Author | : Karen DeKleva |
| Publisher | : Balboa Press |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2024-01-03 |
| Genre | : Religion |
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Many of us long to release ourselves from conditioned fears and unhealthy stress to live a life of well-being and joy. Thankfully, our innermost selves, the spiritual us, is gifted with innate power to activate our miracle path. Karen DeKleva leans on her extensive experience as a psychologist and intuitive who gained spiritual insight following a near-death experience to guide happiness seekers to witness and tap into the loving superpower of the divine core self to co-create, with God, a desired life and spiritual presence in the world. Through self-help techniques and innovative therapeutic tools and restorative spiritual practices, DeKleva leads others through an enlightening self-awareness process to recognize and break free of the socially conditioned self, become open to guidance from the authentic self, and align the core and human selves. Included are personal stories of others’ miracle-filled spiritual journeys that illustrate key principles and offer encouragement to stay the course. Within Each of Us holds the answers for how to spiritually connect with self and others, discover personal meaning, witness the good in the bad, reduce stress, and build a joyful life.
| Author | : Arthur Neal |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2017-09-29 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1351525794 |
What values do Americans hold dear? What happens when real-world situations cause those values to conflict? To better understand the intellectual map of how American society works, Arthur G. Neal and Helen Youngelson-Neal analyze values prominent in American word and deed. These values appear in our nation's formal documents-rights and privileges prominently emphasized in the US Constitution and inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. They have shaped the historical destiny and, indeed, include those values most extensively propagated by the general population. Using these criteria, the authors identify individualism, the pursuit of happiness, freedom, consumerism, materialism, equality of opportunity, technology, mastery of the environment, quality of marriage, and national unity as the core American values. Core values provide the raw materials for the construction of contemporary society as a moral community, wherever that community is located. Such values are clusters of ideas that are central to self-identities; they generate a sense of collective belonging and membership. As such, core values define the existing social order and advance a set of ideas for depicting a desirable future. The analysis presented here helps us understand contemporary conflicts inherent in the American value system and the problems confronted by Americans as they try to live within the limitations and contradictions of value systems.
| Author | : Robert G. Jones |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 389 |
| Release | : 2020-04-02 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0429948735 |
Why doesn’t everyone see sustainability as a huge issue? Why don’t people think more carefully before making choices? What will it take for people to change? Examining the many psychological factors that lead to human behavioral effects on the environment, this book answers these questions definitively and provides practical guidance for approaches that have been used to successfully stimulate change. The Applied Psychology of Sustainability provides an extensive, integrated definition of the processes that lead to climatic, ecological, and socio-economic results: It defines a Psychology of Sustainability. Each chapter applies elements from the core research areas of cognitive, social, and developmental psychology into the context of criteria specific to sustainability. Comprehensively updated to embrace great change in the field, this new edition expands on critical issues yet maintains its strong foundation that the psychology of decisions is the essential precursor to sustainability and that these decisions should be treated as the primary target of change. Throughout the book, readers will find new ways of framing questions related to human adaptability and evolutionary psychology. The Applied Psychology of Sustainability is essential reading for students and professionals in a range of disciplines who wish to contribute to this crucial conversation.
