The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World

Bjorn Lomborg

ISBN 10: 0521010683 / ISBN 13: 9780521010689

Verlag: Cambridge University Press August 2001, 2001

Beschreibung

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 596388

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press August 2001
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0521010683
• ISBN-13: 9780521010689
• Einband: Trade Paperback
• Zustand: USED Good
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • SCIENCE Ecology

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Inhaltsangabe

The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organisations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence. Using the best available statistical information from internationally recognised research institutes, Bjørn Lomborg systematically examines a range of major environmental problems that feature prominently in headline news across the world. His arguments are presented in non-technical, accessible language and are carefully backed up by over 2500 footnotes allowing readers to check sources for themselves. Concluding that there are more reasons for optimism than pessimism, Bjørn Lomborg stresses the need for clear-headed prioritisation of resources to tackle real, not imagined problems. The Skeptical Environmentalist offers readers a non-partisan stocktaking exercise that serves as a useful corrective to the more alarmist accounts favoured by campaign groups and the media.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Bjørn Lomborg is an Associate Professor of Statistics in the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark. He has published in international journals in the fields of game theory and computer simulations. He has given invited lectures on the subjects discussed in The Skeptical Environmentalist in leading universities in North America and Europe following the success of the original Danish edition which has had a significant impact on the terms of the environmental debate within Scandinavia.