This paper proposes an alternative approach to addressing the complex problems of climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The author, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, argues that single policies adopted only at a global scale are unlikely to generate sufficient trust...

1. An accidental life? -- 2. Signs and wonders -- 3. On method -- 4. Au contraire, Monsieur Hardin! -- 5. Green from the grassroots : social-ecological systems -- 6. Knowledge commons -- 7. The political economy of the commons in physical goods -- 8. Politics without romance -- 9. A new science...