Global Climate Change Book:
 

CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY FAILURES:
Why Conventional Mitigation
 Approaches Cannot Succeed

Howard A. Latin

Expected Publication: May 2012

World Scientific Publishing Co.

Table of Contents

Summary of Policy Mistakes

Excerpts from Chapter Two

Publisher's Web Site
for Book Purchases

Course Assignments and Materials

Global Climate Change

Products Liability Law

Tort Law

Additional Legal Materials

Evidence

Medical Policy

Toxic Torts and Regulation

Biodiversity Conservation

EcoVitality was founded in 1998 by Professor Howard Latin after he spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa. It is a non-profit organization set up to preserve nature in remote areas of developing nations where most of Earth's biodiversity is found. Professor Latin's conservation approach has created economic-incentive programs to help persuade people in poor remote regions that they can get what they want most, greater economic and social welfare, by preserving nature in their areas rather than by exploiting natural resources unsustainably.

EcoVitality is a small, all-volunteer group that experimented with various projects including value-added wood products, semi-precious stones, safaris and trekking tours, aquarium fish sales, and other attempts to improve the revenues and pride of people in poor remote areas while giving them a compelling reason to protect their local resources. However, we could not raise sufficient funding in the several years after the 9/11 tragedy to maintain our economic-incentive programs on a lasting basis. As a result, EcoVitality has primarily become an environmental education enterprise.