Climate Change and Common Sense

Essays in Honour of Tom Schelling
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-969287-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 608 g

There is widespread agreement that climate change is a serious problem. If we fail to regulate greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming, or use alternative strategies for addressing the problem, the damages could be significant, and perhaps catastrophic.

After several international meetings in which nation-states have tried unsuccessfully to address the climate change problem, there is a sense of frustration and urgency: frustration at the slow pace at which countries are moving toward an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; urgency because of the growing evidence that climate change is a serious problem that should be addressed globally and quickly.

This book takes a close look at the fundamental political and economic processes driving climate change policy. It identifies institutional arrangements and policies that are needed to design more effective climate change policy. It also examines ethical and distributional arguments that are critical in understanding and framing the climate debate. The book is built around a conference honouring Tom Schelling that took place at the Sustainable Consumption Institute at The University of
Manchester. Each chapter represents a significant contribution to the literature on the political economy of climate change.

Zielgruppe

Academics, researchers and students in politics, economics, environmental and climate studies. NGOs and policymakers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ulph, Alistair

Schelling, Thomas C.

Hahn, Robert W.

Hahn, Robert William

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction and Overview
1: Robert W. Hahn and Alistair Ulph: Thinking through the Climate Change Challenge
Part I: Getting Nations to Work Together
2: Thomas Schelling: Norms, Conventions, and Institutions to Cope with Climate Change
3: Scott Barrett: Credible Commitments, Focal Points, and Tipping: The Strategy of Climate Treaty Design
4: Geoffrey Heal and Howard Kunreuther: Tipping Climate Negotiations
5: Charles D. Kolstad: Bridging Reality and the Theory of International Environmental Agreements
6: Anastasios Xepapadeas: The Cost of Ambiguity and Robustness in International Pollution Control
Part II: Ethical and Distributional Concerns
7: Partha Dasgupta: Time and the Generations
8: Geir B. Asheim: Discounting While Treating Generations Equally
9: David J. Frame and Cameron J. Hepburn: Emerging Markets and Climate Change: Mexican Standoff or Low-carbon Race?
Part III: Approaches to Designing More Efficient Policies
10: Ian Parry and Roberton C. Williams III: Moving US Climate Policy Forward: Are Carbon Taxes the Only Good Alternative?
11: Michael Hoel: Carbon Taxes and the Green Paradox
12: Linda R. Cohen and Amihai Glazer: Derivative Markets for Pollution Permits and Incentives to Innovate
13: Robert Mendelsohn: Development and Climate Adaptation
14: David Anthoff and Richard S.J. Tol: Schelling's Conjecture on Climate and Development: A Test

Über Autor(innen)

Hahn, Robert W.
Edited by Robert W. Hahn, Professor of Economics, Sustainable Consumption Institute, The University of Manchester and Director of Economics, Smith School, University of Oxford, and Alistair Ulph, Director of the Sustainable Consumption Institute, The University of Manchester

From 1999 to 2008, Professor Hahn served as the director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center, a leader in policy research in law and economics, regulation, and antitrust. Previously, he worked for the US President's Council of Economic Advisers, where he helped design the market-based cap-and-trade system for limiting smokestack sulfur emissions at minimum cost to industry. He also served on the faculties of Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Hahn is a frequent contributor to leading scholarly journals including the American Economic Review, Science, and the Yale Law Journal, as well as to general-interest periodicals including the New York Times and Forbes.com. He is also the co-founder of Regulation2point0.org.

Ulph, Alistair
Following employment at the Oxford Centre for Management Studies, Stirling University and Australian National University, Professor Ulph spent 25 years (1979-2004) at the University of Southampton, the last 20 of these as Professor of Economics, with spells as Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia (1985), Australian National University (2002), and University of California Santa Barbara (2002). He was appointed Economic Assessor for the Hinkley Point C Public Inquiry (1989-90) and elected President of European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2000-2001) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (2000-). Between April 2004 and 2010 he held the post of Vice-President and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester. He has published 6 books and over 100 refereed papers.

From 1999 to 2008, Professor Hahn served as the director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center, a leader in policy research in law and economics, regulation, and antitrust. Previously, he worked for the US President's Council of Economic Advisers, where he helped design the market-based cap-and-trade system for limiting smokestack sulfur emissions at minimum cost to industry. He also served on the faculties of Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University. Professor
Hahn is a frequent contributor to leading scholarly journals including the American Economic Review, Science, and the Yale Law Journal, as well as to general-interest periodicals including the New York Times and Forbes.com. He is also the co-founder of Regulation2point0.org.

Following employment at the Oxford Centre for Management Studies, Stirling University and Australian National University, Professor Ulph spent 25 years (1979-2004) at the University of Southampton, the last 20 of these as Professor of Economics, with spells as Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia (1985), Australian National University (2002), and University of California Santa Barbara (2002). He was appointed Economic Assessor for the Hinkley Point C Public Inquiry (1989-90)
and elected President of European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2000-2001) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (2000-). Between April 2004 and 2010 he held the post of Vice-President and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester. He has published 6
books and over 100 refereed papers.