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Informationen zum Autor Matthew E. Kahn is a Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, UCLA Law School, and the Anderson School of Management. He is also a member of the university's departments of economics and public policy. A research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Kahn lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext One of the world's leading urban and environmental economists tells us what our lives will be like when climate change arrives "Climatopolis documents the thinking of a first-rate economist on one of the most pressing issues of our time"-Nature Zusammenfassung " Climatopolis documents the thinking of a first-rate economist on one of the most pressing issues of our time" -- Nature We have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there's no stopping it. The question, according to environmental economist Matthew E. Kahn, is not how we're going to avoid a hotter future but how we're going to adapt to it. In Climatopolis , Kahn argues that cities and regions will adapt to rising temperatures over time, slowly transforming our everyday lives as we change our behaviors and our surroundings. Taking the reader on a tour of the world's cities- from New York to Beijing to Mumbai -- Kahn's clear-eyed, engaging, and optimistic message presents a positive yet realistic picture of what our urban future will look like.