Bjørn Lomborg

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Bjørn Lomborg is a Danish author and President of the think tank, Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is former director of the Danish government's Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen. He became internationally known for his best-selling and controversial book, The Skeptical Environmentalist , in which he argues that many of the costly measures and actions adopted by scientists and policy makers to meet the challenges of global warming will ultimately have minimal impact on the world's rising temperature.

Published Works

• The Skeptical Environmentalist
• Nucleus and Shield: The Evolution of Social Structure in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
• Impact of Current Climate Proposals
• Welfare in the 21st century: Increasing development, reducing inequality, the impact of climate change, and the cost of climate policies
• Need for economists to set global priorities
• Book Review: The Sunnyside of Climate Change
• Game theory vs. multiple agents: The iterated prisoner's dilemma
• Introduction
• How healthy is the world? * Commentary: Gilding the global lily
• The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
Limits to Growth
Simulating Multiparty Systems
Expert Panel Ranking
Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
Gore Wars
Reasons to be cheerful
Introduction
Introduction
CLIMATE CHANGE – OPPONENTS' VIEWS
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES – OPPONENTS' VIEWS
THE CHALLENGE OF CONFLICTS – OPPONENTS' VIEWS
THE CHALLENGE OF LACK OF EDUCATION – OPPONENTS' VIEWS
THE CHALLENGE OF POOR GOVERNANCE AND CORRUPTION – OPPONENTS' VIEWS
HUNGER AND MALNUTRITION – OPPONENTS' VIEWS
POPULATION: MIGRATION – OPPONENTS' VIEWS
THE WATER CHALLENGE – OPPONENTS' VIEWS
SUBSIDIES AND TRADE BARRIERS – OPPONENTS' VIEWS
Conclusion
Introduction
Conclusion
Conclusion
Introduction
Introduction
Conclusion: Making Your Own Prioritization
RESPONSE TO YOHE ET AL.
How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
Limits to Lomborg
Resource Constraints or Abundance?
Rationalitetsantagelsen i samfundsvidenskaberne
Kurt Aagaard Nielsen, Anni Greve, Finn Hansson, Klaus Rasborg (red.), Risiko, politik og miljø i det moderne samfund - en antologi om en aktuel kontrovers, København: Forlaget Sociologi, 1999, 374 s., kr. 275,00.
The Skeptical Environmentalist
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Other Resources

• en.wikipedia.org
• www.lomborg.com

Schools

University of Georgia

Public university located in Athens, Georgia, United States

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Aarhus University

Public university in Aarhus, Denmark

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Notable Works

• Global Crises, Global Solutions
• Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming

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