Overview

In the early 21st century, environmental risks such as climate change, biodiversity loss, resource scarcity, large-scale migrations, and conflicts over critical resources have become our lived reality in a world where nearly 8 billion people struggle to thrive. These crises have proven impossible to address without fundamental transformations of our economic institutions—exactly as predicted in this groundbreaking work. First published in 1994, Taming the Dragon offers a careful investigation of the processes that have led to global environmental change. It is based on a new and original analysis of economic mechanisms as the result of complex processes of cultural evolution. This analysis enables the author to develop both a short-term strategy and a long-term perspective for managing the global environmental crisis. Demonstrating how and why world economic and environmental policies are dangerously out of sync with each other, Jaeger arrives at an understanding of human reality that stresses the importance of interpersonal relations both in private life and within the world economic system itself.

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Reviews

Reviews of the first publication: ‘[A] masterful piece of work, carefully thought out, well organised…Presented clearly with little ambiguity…at present, there is no comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis of the central questions of human ecology…Jaeger’s is a truly interdisciplinary treatment of the subject’. — Gerald R. Young, Washington State University ‘The intellectual level of this book is excellent. Taming the Dragon makes significant contributions to the fields of human ecology, environmental economics, and environmental sociology. The ideas contained is this book are substantial.’ — Robert Brulle, George Washington University

Author Information

Carlo C. Jaeger is a sustainability scientist with a background in economics, sociology, and human ecology. He is co-founder and chairman of the Global Climate Forum. Jaeger’s current research is focused on problems of global coordination, especially in view of sustainable development.

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