Gebundenes Buch

Economics and Politics of Climate Change

Beschreibung

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.

Target group: Academics, researchers and students in politics, economics, environmental and climate studies. NGO's and policymakers.

Autor

Dieter Helm is Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College. He holds a number of advisory board appointments, including Chairman of the Academic Panel of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and member of the Advisory Panel on Energy and Climate Security, Department for Energy and Climate Change. He was a member of the DTI Sustainable Energy Policy Advisory Board 2002-7 and of the Prime Minister's Council of Science and Technology 2004-7. He is an associate editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. Dieter Helm's career to date has spanned academia, public policy, and business. He founded Oxera in 1982 and has published extensively on environmental, energy, infrastructure, and regulation topics. Dr Cameron Hepburn is a Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University's new Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He has advised several governments and international institutions on climate and environmental policy, and he currently serves on UK Defra's Academic Panel. He is an Associate Editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, a Research Fellow at New College, Oxford, and he has over a decade's experience working on environmental issues and climate change, with a particular focus on emissions trading and carbon markets. He holds a DPhil (PhD) in economics from Oxford, and undergraduate degrees in law and engineering from the University of Melbourne.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 566
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 166mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 982g
• ISBN-13: 9780199573288
• ISBN-10: 019957328X
• Artikelnr.: 26579976

Rezensionen

Successfully illustrate[s] the immense complexity of the problem...a valuable compendium Sir Crispin Tickell, Financial Times