The Skeptical Environmentalist

Measuring the Real State of the World

Bjorn Lomborg

516 pages, parution le 16/10/2001

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Résumé

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.

Contents

Introduction
Part I. The Litany:
1.1 Things are getting better
1.2. Why do we hear so much bad news?
Part II. Human Welfare:
2.1. Measuring human welfare
2.2 Life expectancy and health
2.3. Food and hunger
2.4. Prosperity
2.5. Conclusion
Part III. Can Human Prosperity Continue?:
3.1 Are we living on borrowed time?
3.2. Will we have enough food
3.3. Forests - are we losing them?
3.4. Energy
3.5. Non-energy resources
3.6. Water
3.7. Conclusion
Part IV. Pollution:
4.1. Air pollution
4.2. Acid rain and forest death
4.3. Indoor air pollution
4.4. Allergies and asthma
4.5. Water pollution
4.6. Waste: running out of space?
4.7. Conclusion
Part V. Tomorrow's Problems:
5.1. Our chemical fears
5.2. Biodiversity
5.3. Global warming
Part VI. The real State of the World:
6.1. Predicament or progress?
Notes
Bibliography.

L'auteur - Bjorn Lomborg

Bjorn Lomborg is Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Aarhus, and former Director, Environmental Assessment Institute, Copenhagen. He is listed as one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine, and is author of the controversial best-seller, The Skeptical Environmentalist.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Bjorn Lomborg
Parution	16/10/2001
Nb. de pages	516
Format	17,5 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1051g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521010689
ISBN13	978-0-521-01068-9