Global Challenges of Climate Change, Vol.2: Risk Assessment, Political and Social Dimension of the Green Energy Transition (World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures)

This two-volume book offers a broad range of discussions on the immense challenge of climate change, one confronting every country on the planet and forcing them to find a path towards a sustainable future that will not have disastrous consequences in relation to our chances of survival. It also presents a snapshot of the status quo, which reflects all the decisions and measures taken to date. Analyzing the consequences of the steps that will shape our future, the two volumes also reflect on important decisions at a global level that have already been taken. 

This book is a must-read for scholars, researchers and students, as well as policymakers interested in a better understanding of climate change, present scenarios, and alternative solutions and measures.

João Carlos Correia Leitão is an Associate Professor with habilitation and the Director of the UBIExecutive, Business School at the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal. He further is a research fellow at the NECE Research Center in Business Sciences at UBI, and an Associate Researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS), University of Lisbon, Portugal. Leitão is an external research fellow ofthe Center for Young and Family Enterprise (CYFE), Università Degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy. He is a prolific author and a series editor of the Springer book series Studies in Entrepreneurship, Structural Change, and Industrial Dynamics. Leitão is also an editorial board member of several international journals.

Yuri Yegorov is the Chair of Industry, Energy and Environment at the University of Vienna, Austria. He holds a PhD in mathematical physics from St. Petersburg University, Russia, and in Economics from UPF, Barcelona, Spain. Previously, he was a Visiting Researcher at Santa Fe Institute, USA. Yegorov worked at the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Maritime University of St.Petersburg, Russia (1987-1992), as Assistant Professor of Economics at University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (1996-98), at the Central European University, Vienna, Austria (1998-2002), and at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria (2002-2007). Hisresearch focuses on markets for natural gas and dynamic optimization models.

Dmitry Chistilin is the President of the Simon Kuznets Institute for Selforganization and Development, Kyiv, Ukraine, and a Supervisor at the Center for Strategical Analysis of the Institute for the Analysis and Expertise of the VEB RF, in Moscow, Russia. He holds a PhD in economics from the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and taught courses on socioeconomic development and macroeconomic cycle theory at the Moscow State University, Russia.