Roland Kupers is a consultant on complexity, resilience, and energy transition and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Amsterdam. A theoretical physicist by training, he spent a decade each at AT&T and Shell in various senior executive functions, including as Vice President for Sustainable Development.
Whether dissecting China's Ecological Civilization or the United
States' Green New Deal, Kupers describes what's folly, what's
possible, and which solutions just might work. * E: The
Environmental Magazine *
Rather than focusing on introducing more green technologies, which
essentially just amounts to tweaking the status quo, Kupers argues
that the transformative solutions needed are only discoverable at
the interconnection of systems (societal, technical, and economic)
and found through concerted experimentation and innovation...Gives
academics, policymakers, economists, and climate governance
specialists alike an additional tool with which to spark the
climate revolution we desperately need. -- Joel Terwilliger *
Environmental Politics *
Convincingly contends that our climate crisis demands revolutionary
policy changes. Incremental shifts such as turning off lights and
flying less are helpful but insufficient... Kupers' crisply written
text-which brims with fascinating examples-will engage readers from
entrepreneurs and policy makers to environmental activists. *
Choice *
A Climate Policy Revolution not only shows convincingly that
we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we
created them, but also discusses realistic ways forward. Kupers
successfully uses deep concepts of complexity science to point out
the weaknesses in our thinking and policy measures when getting a
grip on the causal networks that lead to our current environmental
and climate challenges. This is a timely and important book; read
it and act accordingly! -- Peter M. A. Sloot, Scientific Director
of the Institute for Advanced Study, Amsterdam, and Director of the
Complexity Institute, Singapore
A Climate Policy Revolution delivers on the promise of its
title: it offers a framework for how to think about the kinds of
changes that we need to make to meet the climate crisis that is
genuinely different and disruptive. Kupers's focus-on
disequilibrium rather than equilibrium, on closing off current
paths as much as opening new ones, and on letting go as much as
steering-is refreshing and compelling. It's a book that should
interest public problem-solvers of every stripe. -- Anne-Marie
Slaughter, author of The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of
Connection in a Networked World
With insight and clarity, A Climate Policy Revolution
reveals the shortcomings of our current reductionist attempts to
addressing climate change. Kupers instead offers an evolutionary
approach that identifies what will be required to stabilize the
climate. -- Steven Hamburg, Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense
Fund
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