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UNINA9910780759503321 |
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Autore |
Nordhaus William D |
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A question of balance [[electronic resource] ] : weighing the options on global warming policies / / William Nordhaus |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008 |
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1-282-50145-3 |
9786612501456 |
0-300-16598-6 |
1-4416-4562-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Global warming - Economic aspects |
Climatic changes - Economic aspects |
Environmental economics |
Greenhouse gas mitigation - Economic aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-226) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One: Summary For The Concerned Citizen -- Two: Background And Description Of The Dice Model -- Three: Derivation Of The Equations Of The Dice-2007 Model -- Four: Alternative Policies For Global Warming -- Five: Results Of The Dice-2007 Model Runs -- Six: The Economics Of Participation -- Seven: Dealing With Uncertainty In Climate-Change Policy -- Eight: The Many Advantages Of Carbon Taxes -- Nine: An Alternative Perspective: The Stern Review -- Ten: Summary And Conclusions -- Appendix: Equations Of The Dice-2007 Model -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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As scientific and observational evidence on global warming piles up every day, questions of economic policy in this central environmental topic have taken center stage. But as author and prominent Yale economist William Nordhaus observes, the issues involved in understanding global warming and slowing its harmful effects are complex and cross disciplinary boundaries. For example, ecologists see global warming as a threat to ecosystems, utilities as a debit to their |
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balance sheets, and farmers as a hazard to their livelihoods. In this important work, William Nordhaus integrates the entire spectrum of economic and scientific research to weigh the costs of reducing emissions against the benefits of reducing the long-run damages from global warming. The book offers one of the most extensive analyses of the economic and environmental dynamics of greenhouse-gas emissions and climate change and provides the tools to evaluate alternative approaches to slowing global warming. The author emphasizes the need to establish effective mechanisms, such as carbon taxes, to harness markets and harmonize the efforts of different countries. This book not only will shape discussion of one the world's most pressing problems but will provide the rationales and methods for achieving widespread agreement on our next best move in alleviating global warming. |
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UNINA9910971783403321 |
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Autore |
Gelder Ken <1955-> |
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Reading the vampire / / Ken Gelder |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994 |
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1-134-89533-X |
1-134-89534-8 |
0-203-13205-X |
1-280-33576-9 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Vampires in literature |
Vampire films - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-156) and index. |
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1. Ethnic vampires : Transylvania and beyond -- 2. Vampires in Greece : Byron and Polidori -- 3. Vampires and the uncanny : Le Fanu's 'Carmilla' -- 4. Reading Dracula -- 5. Vampires and cinema : from Nosferatu to Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' -- 6. Vampires in the (old) new |
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world : Anne Rice's vampire chronicles -- 7. Vampire blockbusters : Stephen King, Dan Simmons, Brian Aldiss and S.P. Somtow. |
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Insatiable bloodlust, dangerous sexualities, the horror of the undead, uncharted Trannsylvanian wildernesses, and a morbid fascination with the `other': the legend of the vampire continues to haunt popular imagination. Reading the Vampire examines the vampire in all its various manifestations and cultural meanings. Ken Gelder investigates vampire narratives in literature and in film, from early vampire stories like Sheridan Le Fanu's `lesbian vampire' tale Carmilla and Bram Stoker's Dracula, the most famous vampire narrative of all, to contemporary American vampire blockbusters by Stephen King and others, the vampire chronicles of Anne Rice, `post-Ceausescu' vampire narratives, and films such as FW Murnau's Nosferatu and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Reading the Vampire embeds vampires in their cultural contexts, showing vampire narratives feeding off the anxieties and fascinations of their times: from the nineteenth century perils of tourism, issues of colonialism and national identity, and obsessions with sex and death, to the `queer' identity of the vampire or current vampiric metaphors for dangerous exchanges of bodily fluids and AIDS. |
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