Climate Change

Bookwatch, The, Nov, 2004

Climate Change

David G. Victor

Brookings Institute

1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW

Washington, DC 20036

www.brookings.edu/press/books

0876093438 $15.00 www.amazon.com

Plenty of titles present exposes of the climate change coming: David Victor's Climate Change provides a political approach, debating American policy options in climate change and surveying the economic and social costs of changing climate conditions. Three contrasting perspectives are offered: one emphasizes the ability of wealthy societies to adapt, a second urges new attention to the defunct Kyoto Protocol, a third urges unilateral action creating a market for low-carbon emission technologies around the world. All provide important discussions.