Independent, rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the economic aspects of climate change.
Managing the Global Commons presents a unique effort to encompass economic, scientific, and policy aspects of this great geophysical experiment.
The starting point and core idea of this book is the long-held observation that the threat of climate change calls for a change of climate in economics.
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This impressive new collection couldn't come at a better time.
They can't both be right. In this book, Frank Ackerman offers a refreshing look at the economics of climate change, explaining how the arbitrary assumptions of conventional theories get in the way of understanding this urgent problem.
The volume brings together leading climate change policy experts to set out the economic analysis and the nature of the negotiations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and beyond.
Against the background of a projected doubling of world greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, this book explores feasible ways to abate them at least cost.
All of these are addressed in the book from the perspective of economics of adaptation. Other dimensions of adaptation are also included, such as the role of low- and middle-income countries, technology and the impacts of extreme events.
Both theoretical and empirical literature on environmental policy agrees that the first dividend of, for instance, a carbon tax is a cleaner environment, which, applied to our case of study, implies lower GHG emissions (de Mooij 2000); ...
This study examines the costs and benefits of an aggressive program of global action to limit greenhouse warming. An initial chapter summarizes the scientific issues from the standpoint of an...