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Stabilizing the climate is not costly but profitable
- Publisher
- SAGE
- Copyright
- Copyright © by SAGE Publications
- ISSN
- 1086-0266
- eISSN
- 1552-7417
- DOI
- 10.1177/1086026699121010
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
ORGANIZATION & ENVIRO BOOK NMENT REVIEWS / March 1999 Andrew Hoffman (Ed.). Global Climate Change: A Senior Level Debate at the Intersection of Economics, Strategy, Technology, Science, Politics, and Interna tional Negotiation. San Francisco: New Lexington Press, 1998. We were very pleased to be invited to review Andy Hoffman’s edited book. We set ourselves to this task as news continued to come from the Central American countries devastated by Hurricane Mitch. Thousands have died a terrifying death and hundreds of thousands (more than one million in Honduras alone) are left homeless amid the dangerous conditions of its wake. It is surely not only the insur ance industry forecasters who are concerned that the increases in hurricane speeds that result from climate change will increase insured losses. All of us are concerned, some of us terrified. Like Professor Hoffman, we are also professors of organizational behavior who believe that it is time for business schools to offer their talents and capabilities in support of collaborative searches for solutions to contemporary globally-locally linked problems. In relative terms, the organization sciences have been latecomers to the worldwide call to all the social sciences to create better understanding of “the human dimensions of
Journal
Organization & Environment – SAGE
Published: Mar 1, 1999