1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450928103321

Titolo

The economics of climate change / / edited by Anthony D. Owen and Nick Hanley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

0-429-23347-7

1-134-44573-3

1-280-07725-5

0-203-49578-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Collana

Routledge explorations in environmental economics ; ; 3

Altri autori (Persone)

OwenAnthony David

HanleyNick

Disciplina

363.738/74

363.73874

Soggetti

Environmental economics

Climatic changes - Economic aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Global warming: scientific modelling and its relationship to the economic dimensions of policy; From negotiation to implementation: the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol; Climate protection: what insight can econom ics offer?; The economics of the Kyoto Protocol; The role of economic instruments; Cost-Benefit Analysis and climate change; Economic modelling of global climate change

The role of energy prices in global climate changeProject-based mechanisms: baselines, additionality and monitoring; Developing countries and climate change; The transition to renewable energy; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This impressive new collection couldn't come at a better time. With global warming now becoming physically noticeable and the Kyoto treaty stalling in its efforts to get the developed world on board, a look



at the economic factors of global warming is very much welcome. With contributions from distinguished authors and covering everything you need to know about global warming and its financial implications, this fascinating book will appeal across the political and scientific spectrum.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785647503321

Autore

Christensen Rob

Titolo

The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics [[electronic resource] ] : The Personalities, Elections, and Events That Shaped Modern North Carolina

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : The University of North Carolina Press, 2010

ISBN

1-4696-0628-3

0-8078-9963-1

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 p.)

Disciplina

975.6043

Soggetti

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1951-

Political culture -- North Carolina

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue; CHAPTER 1. The Simmons Machine; CHAPTER 2. The Shelby Dynasty; CHAPTER 3. Branchhead Boys; CHAPTER 4. The Last of the Conservative Democrats; CHAPTER 5. Dixie Dynamo; CHAPTER 6. Jessecrats; CHAPTER 7. Jim Hunt and the Democratic Revival; CHAPTER 8. Phoenix Rising; CHAPTER 9. A New Century; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

How can a state be represented by Jesse Helms and John Edwards at the same time? Journalist Rob Christensen answers that question and navigates a century of political history in North Carolina, one of the most politically vibrant and competitive southern states, where neither conservatives nor liberals, Democrats nor Republicans, have been able to rest easy. It is this climate of competition and challenge, Christensen argues, that enabled North Carolina to rise from poverty in the nineteenth century to become a leader in research, education, and



banking in the twentieth. In this new pa