Frank Ackerman, Elizabeth Stanton

Climate Economics (eBook, ePUB)

The State of the Art

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book reviews the state of the art in climate economics, and in the science on which it rests. It covers the estimation of climate damages, an area where economic models lag far behind current empirical research. Recent work on uncertainty and catastrophic risk has challenged past approaches to climate policy, offering new decision rules for extreme uncertainty, and alternative weightings of worst-case scenarios. Longstanding debates on discount rates and intergenerational obligations have been transformed by perspectives from finance, ethics, and other fields. The applied policy debate rests on surprisingly subtle assumptions about mitigation costs and technologies, and on the largely unexplored economics of adaptation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135074043
• Artikelnr.: 38246246

Autorenporträt

Frank Ackerman is Professor in the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University, USA

Elizabeth A. Stanton is a Senior Economist with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI-US)

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Climate Science for Economists 3. Damage functions and
climate impacts 4. Climate Change Impacts on Natural Systems 5. Climate
Change Impacts on Human Systems 6. Climate Economics Before and After the
Stern Review 7. Uncertainty 8. Public goods and public policy 9. Economics
and the Climate Policy Debate 10. Technologies for Mitigation 11. Economics
of Mitigation 12. Adaptation 13. Conclusion