Global climate change the science, economics and politics /
This volume is written for policymakers and informed citizenry who want to understand at a general level the complexities of global climate change without becoming enmeshed in technical minutia. The introduction emphasizes the core fact that climate change issues cut across disciplines. William Schl...
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| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. :
Edward Elgar,
c2003.
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| Series: | Bush School series in the economics of public policy ;
v. 4. New horizons in environmental economics. |
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| Online Access: | https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781843761907.xml |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : the many dimensions of the climate change issue
- 2. The carbon cycle : human perturbations and potential management options
- 3. Climate change over the next century
- 4. Benefit-cost analysis and climate-change policy
- 5. Assessing the market damages from climate change
- 6. The difficulties of estimating global non-market damages from climate change
- 7. What are the costs of limiting CO2 concentrations?
- 8. Energy, the environment and the economy : hedging our bets
- 9. International agreements and the struggle to tame carbon
- 10. Five letters to the president.