Economics and Policy Issues in Climate Change

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-915707-95-9
Verlag: RFF Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 669 g

Although the negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol focused world attention on the global climate, it was just one step in the ongoing process of addressing climate change in all its facets. Research by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been ongoing since 1988. An extensive IPCC Working Group report published in 1995 examined the economic and social aspects of climate change. In this volume, eminent analysts assess that IPCC report and address the questions that emerge from it. The result is an instructive and cogent look at the realities of climate change and some methods (and difficulties) of dealing with them. William Nordhaus's introduction establishes the context for the book. It provides basic scientific background on climate change, reviews the IPCC's activities, and explains the genesis of the analyses. Subsequent contributions fall into two categories. Early chapters review analytical issues critical to social and economic understanding of climate change. A second set of chapters address specific economic questions surrounding climate-change policy. The result is an original and significant contribution to the evolving debate on this crucial hot-button topic.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nordhaus, William D.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Michael A. Toman

Preface

William D. Nordhaus

1. Assessing the Economics of Climate Change: An Introduction

William D. Nordhaus

Part 1. Major Analytical Issues

2. Policy Analysis for Decisionmaking About Climate Change

M. Granger Morgan

Comments

Akihiro Amano

Alan S. Manne

3. Equity and Discounting in Climate Change Decisions

Robert C. Lind and Richard E. Schuler

Comments

William R. Cline

Richard N. Cooper

4. Applicability of Cost-Benefit Analysis to Climate Change

Paul R. Portney

Comments

Ferenc L. Toth

5. Greenhouse Policy Architectures and Institutions

Richard Schmalensee

Comments

R. K. Pachauri

Part 2. Specific Climate Change Policy Issues

6. The Costs of Greenhouse Gas Abatement

Tom Kram

7. The Costs of Carbon Emissions Reductions

John P. Weyant

Comments

Richard Richels

8. Climate Change Damages

Robert Mendelsohn

Comments

Richard S. J. Tol

John Reilly

William R. Cline

9. Integrated Assessment Modeling of Climate Change

Charles D. Kolstad

Comments

John P. Weyant

Jae Edmonds

Index

Über Autor(innen)

William D. Nordhaus is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is a recognized authority on climate change: among his books are Managing the Global Commons and The Swedish Nuclear Dilemma: Energy and the Environment (RFF, 1997). He is coauthor (with Paul Samuelson) of Economics, now in its sixteenth edition.