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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781976603321

Autore

Pearson Charles S.

Titolo

Economics and the challenge of global warming / / Charles S. Pearson [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-139-14028-0

1-107-22887-5

1-283-31522-X

1-139-13959-2

9786613315229

0-511-98464-2

1-139-14537-1

1-139-14117-1

1-139-13804-9

1-139-14205-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 231 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

BUS099000

Disciplina

363.738/74

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Economic aspects

Global warming - Economic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction and a roadmap -- 1. Climate change: background information -- 2. The role of benefit cost in climate policy -- 3. Discounting and social weighting (aggregating over time and space) -- 4. Empirical estimates: a tasting menu -- 5. Strategic responses -- 6. Targets and tools -- 7. Trade and global warming -- 8. The challenge of international cooperation -- 9. Beyond Kyoto -- 10. A summing-up.

Sommario/riassunto

Economics and the Challenge of Global Warming is a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the role of economics in confronting global warming, the central environmental issue of the twenty-first century. It avoids a technical exposition in order to reach a wide audience and is up to date in its theoretical and empirical underpinnings. It is addressed to all who have some knowledge of economic concepts and



a serious interest in how economics can (and cannot) help in crafting climate policy. The book is organized around three central questions. First, can benefit-cost analysis guide us in setting warming targets? Second, what strategies and policies are cost-effective? Third, and most difficult, can a global agreement be forged between rich and poor, North and South? While economic concepts are foremost in the analysis, they are placed within an accessible ethical and political matrix. The book serves as a primer for the post-Kyoto era.