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A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future Hardcover – October 22, 2019

by Daniel C. Esty (Editor), Ingrid C. Burke (Foreword)
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A practical, bipartisan call to action from the world’s leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability
 
Sustainability has emerged as a global priority in the past decade. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and the adoption of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals through the United Nations have highlighted the need to address critical challenges such as the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, water shortages, and air pollution. But in the United States, partisan divides, regional disputes, and deep disagreements over core principles have made it nearly impossible to chart a course toward a sustainable future.
 
This timely new book, edited by celebrated scholar Daniel C. Esty, offers fresh thinking and forward-looking solutions from environmental thought leaders across the political spectrum. The book’s forty essays cover such subjects as ecology, environmental justice, Big Data, public health, and climate change, all with an emphasis on sustainability. The book focuses on moving toward sustainability through actionable, bipartisan approaches based on rigorous analytical research.
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    416 pages
  2. Language
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    Yale University Press
  4. Publication date
    October 22, 2019
  5. Dimensions
    6.13 x 1.13 x 9.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0300246242
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0300246247
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“The book provides excellent ideas.”—Financial Times, selected as a Best Book of the Year in Economics, 2019

Axiom Award silver medal winner in the Philanthropy/Nonprofit/Sustainability category, sponsored by Axiom Business Book Awards

“Sustainability represents the overarching challenge of our day, which must be met with a commitment to a spirit of progress across the global community. A Better Planet offers an array of ideas for helping to deliver the ecological transition that is now an imperative.”—Emmanuel Macron, President of France

“A Better Planet offers new approaches to the world’s most pressing environmental problems. It’s a timely and urgently needed volume.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

“Pressing the reset button, this book brings together refreshingly new and profoundly compelling approaches to environmental policy and action in the USA and beyond.”—Christiana Figueres, executive secretary, UN Climate Change Convention, 2010–16

“A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future creates 40 opportunities to start accelerating the transition to a better planet today. The direction is clear; now we need to work together, at scale.”—Peter Bakker, president and CEO, World Business Council for Sustainable Development

“No one can criticize Dan Esty and his talented colleagues for not thinking big: there are ideas in this book that will appeal to anyone—and maybe a couple that will raise your hackles. It’s the kind of spirited, discipline-crossing, deep-dive that will help reorient a sometimes-stale environmental debate!”—Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

About the Author

Daniel C. Esty is Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale School of the Environment and Yale Law School. He served as head of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection from 2011 to 2014 and in several leadership roles at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1989 to 1993.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press (October 22, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300246242
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300246247
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.64 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 1.13 x 9.25 inches
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Wende S. Hutton
5.0 out of 5 stars Practical advice for sophisticated environmental approaches
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2020
Interdisciplinary thinking for better approaches to conservation, combating global warming and preserving biodiversity while supporting local economies.
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DKTO
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read!
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2020
If you are even remotely interested in the well-being of our planet, this is a must read!
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Robert Boucher
1.0 out of 5 stars Another Rant by the Greens
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2020
have you forgotten that when I was a Yale in 1955 most of Connecticut heated their homes with coal or oil. natural gas is much cleaner. Sorry to inform Esty at al that CO2 is not a poison gas. Humans exhale 1/2 pound per day.
This book makes me wonder what has happened to Yale????????
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Cat
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book.
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2020
Great book. Practical solutions. Read it!
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Andrew Caffrey
1.0 out of 5 stars We can't make a world better than nature has created
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2020
Delusional brave new worlder, Esty wants to replace forests with GMO carbon sink robot trees.
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AFM KAMRUL HASSAN
1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth of money
Reviewed in Australia on December 14, 2022
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Very boring book. Each chapter discusses something which is known to everyone. There is no concrete solution to climate problems.
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