Tol Environmental Crises

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-3-540-75896-9
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 142 Seiten

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tol, Richard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;5
2;Introduction;6
3;Climate Change Scenarios – Purpose and Construction;9
3.1;1 Introduction;9
3.2;2 Emission Scenarios;13
3.3;3 Scenarios of Anthropogenic Global Climate Change;15
3.4;4 Regional Anthropogenic Climate Change;17
3.5;Literature;18
4;Economic Scenarios for Global Change;20
4.1;1 Introduction;20
4.2;2 What are Economic Scenarios?;20
4.3;3 Predictability, Resolution and Scale;22
4.4;4 How to Build a Scenario?;25
4.5;5 Economic Growth;25
4.6;6 Emissions;27
4.7;7 Vulnerability;29
4.8;8 Empirical Validity;32
4.9;9 Conclusion;35
4.10;References;36
5;Climate Change: Regulating the Unknown;39
5.1;1 Introduction;39
5.2;2 Global Warming Potentials;40
5.3;3 Multi-Gas Emission Reduction;42
5.4;4 Ancillary Bene.ts;43
5.5;5 The Social Cost of Carbon;44
5.6;6 Europe’s Long-Term Climate Policy Target;46
5.7;7 Conclusion;47
5.8;References;48
6;Curbing the Omnipresence of Lead in the European Environment Since the 1970s – a Successful Example of E . cient Environmental Policy;54
6.1;1 Introduction;54
6.2;2 Gasoline-Lead Regulations in Europe;55
6.3;3 Reconstructing Regional Pathways of Lead;56
6.4;4 Some Environmental and Economical Impacts;60
6.5;5 Conclusion and Outlook;62
6.6;References;64
7;Mission Impossible? Media Coverage of Scienti . c Findings;66
7.1;1 Introduction;66
7.2;2 Journalism and Science: Di.erences and Similarities in Aims and Functions of two Systems;67
7.3;3 The Way of Telling a Story: Issue Life-cycles;71
7.4;4 The Way of Telling the Lead Story;76
7.5;5 Conclusion;78
7.6;6 References;79
8;Fishing for Sustainable Policies – Political Causes of Over- . shing and Solutions for Sustainable Fisheries;83
8.1;1 State of World Fisheries;83
8.2;2 Short Introduction to Fisheries Management;85
8.3;3 Fisheries in the European Union (EU) – Status and Problems;88
8.4;4 The Solution: Sustainable Fisheries;94
8.5;5 Conclusion;99
8.6;Literature;99
9;Oil Pollution in Marine Ecosystems – Policy, Fate, E . ects and Response;101
9.1;1 Introduction;101
9.2;2 Fate and E.ect of Oil Pollution in the Sea;106
9.3;3 Chemical Oil-spill Countermeasures at Sea – Dispersants;110
9.4;4 Oil Spill Response Management Supported by Models and Integrated Software Systems;115
9.5;5 Long Term Simulations of Environmental Conditions as a Basis for Oil Spill Risk Assessments;123
9.6;6 The Role of the European Maritime Safety Agency in Marine Pollution Response;126
9.7;Literature;136
10;Index;140