Two vital challenges facing the world are global inequality and global climate change. Solutions to both these problems are urgently needed, but, given current policies, they can …
W Steffen, J Morgan - Globalizations, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In this wide-ranging interview, the well-known Earth System scientist Professor Will Steffen introduces and discusses the influential planetary boundaries (PB) framework, the potential …
Increasing discussion is occurring, in both the popular media and scientific research papers, about the risk of catastrophic climate change (CCC). Earth Science researchers have …
J Derbyshire, J Morgan - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate emergency is fast becoming the overriding problem of our times and rapid reductions in carbon emissions a primary policy focus that is liable to affect all aspects of …
The “energy crises” of the 1970s together with the appearance of numerous books and papers on the general theme of “limits to growth” catapulted energy from obscurity to social …
B Gills, J Morgan - Economics and Climate Emergency, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
In this editorial postscript, we return to a primary theme of this special issue on Economics and Climate Emergency. We elaborate on some aspects of, and reasons why we need …
T Trainer - Environmental Values, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The rapidly expanding degrowth literature has focused predominantly on the case for degrowth and its goals and much less attention has been given to how it might be achieved …
Intentional energy use by humans is many millennia old, but until about two centuries ago, the energy used was almost entirely bioenergy. Since then we have witnessed a transition to …