Climatopolis

How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future
by Matthew E Kahn
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"Climatopolis documents the thinking of a first-rate economist on one of the most pressing issues of our time" -- Nature

We have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there's no stopping it. The question, according to environmental economist Matthew E. Kahn, is not how we're...
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Published By Basic Books

Format Paperback

Number Of Pages 288

Publication Date 06/25/2013

ISBN 9780465063833

Dimensions 5.5 inches x 8.25 inches


"Figuring out why I disagree with Matt Kahn's arguments leaves me seeing the world in a different way. That's rare. And Kahn writes so well that it's always a fun ride regardless of where the journey ends. Climatopolis is no exception. Read it for one vision of our hot, humid, hazy future."—Ray Fisman, co-author of Economic Gangsters

"It is refreshing...to read books which look at the warming to come not as a frightful warning, nor as a fait accompli, but as something to which, at some levels of change, people will have to adapt--and which in some settings they may adapt to rather well."—Economist

"[E]ngaging and provocative.... Professor Kahn's book provides a helpful middle ground between the extreme climate Cassandras and those who snort at climate change."—Edward L. Glaeser, New York Times Economix Blog

 
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