Climate change and global equity / / Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Ackerman Frank |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Anthem Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 363.738/74 |
Collana |
Anthem environment and sustainability
Anthem frontiers of global political economy |
Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - Economic aspects
Climatic changes - Political aspects |
ISBN | 1-78308-024-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Climate Change and Global Equity""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Table of contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Publication History""; ""Part I PERSPECTIVES ON CLIMATE AND EQUITY""; ""Chapter 1 Climate Economics in Four Easy Pieces""; ""Introduction""; ""Your Grandchildren's Lives Are Important""; ""We Need to Buy Insurance for the Planet""; ""Climate Damages Are Too Valuable to Have Prices""; ""Some Costs Are Better than Others""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 2 Carbon Markets Are Not Enough""; ""Introduction: The State of the Debate""; ""What Would Carbon Prices Accomplish?""
""Where Do New Technologies Come From?""""Carbon Markets and Developing Countries""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 3 Modeling Pessimism: Does Climate Stabilization Require a Failure of Development?""; ""Introduction""; ""A Review of Current Practices""; ""Modeling Income Convergence""; ""Modeling changes in emissions intensity ""; ""Findings""; ""Policy Measures to Reduce Emissions Intensity""; ""Discussion and Recommendations""; ""Chapter 4 The Tragedy of Maldistribution: Climate, Sustainability and Equity""; ""Introduction: Equity and Sustainability""; ""Measuring Equity"" ""Equity as a Public Good""""Suboptimal Levels of Environmental Public Goods""; ""Externalities""; ""Cost benefit analysis""; ""Power-weighted decision rule""; ""Strengthening the Equity Commons: Obstacles and Strategies""; ""Clarifying property rights""; ""Reducing transaction costs""; ""Multi-criteria analysis""; ""Cost-effectiveness analysis""; ""Redistribution of income and wealth""; ""Redistribution of political and social power""; ""Equity for Sustainability: The Case of Climate Change""; ""Part II ANALYSES OF CLIMATE DAMAGES"" ""Chapter 5 Climate Impacts on Agriculture: A Challenge to Complacency?""""Introduction: The Foundations of Inaction""; ""What We Used to Know about Agriculture""; ""Temperature Thresholds for Crop Yields""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 6 Did the Stern Review Underestimate US and Global Climate Change?""; ""Introduction""; ""The PAGE 2002 Model""; ""Stern's US and Global Results from PAGE 2002""; ""Adaptation Assumptions""; ""Thresholds and Probabilities for Climate Catastrophes""; ""The Shape of the Damage Function""; ""Worst-Case versus Average Damages""; ""Conclusions "" ""Chapter 7 Can Climate Change Save lives? A Comment on 'Economy-Wide Estimates of the Implications of Climate Change: Human Health"""Introduction""; ""The 'Minimum-Mortality Temperature""; ""Extreme Weather""; ""Unexplained Differences""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part III THEORY AND METHODS OF INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT ""; ""Chapter 8 Inside the Integrated Assessment Models: Four Issues in Climate Economics""; ""Introduction""; ""Choice of Model Structure""; ""Differences in model structures""; ""Welfare optimization models""; ""General equilibrium models""; ""Partial equilibrium models"" ""Simulation models"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464280303321 |
Ackerman Frank | ||
London : , : Anthem Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Climate economics : the state of the art / / Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton |
Autore | Ackerman Frank |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.738/74 |
Collana | Routledge studies in ecological economics |
Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - Economic aspects
Greenhouse gas mitigation - Economic aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-203-06631-6
1-299-14103-X 1-135-07405-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Climate science for economists -- Damage functions and climate impacts -- Climate change impacts on natural systems -- Climate change impacts on human systems -- Climate economics before and after the stern review -- Uncertainty -- Public goods and public policy -- Economics and the climate policy debate -- Technologies for mitigation -- Economics of mitigation -- Adaptation -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462991203321 |
Ackerman Frank | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Climate economics : the state of the art / / Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton |
Autore | Ackerman Frank |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 187 pages) |
Disciplina | 363.738/74 |
Collana | Routledge studies in ecological economics |
Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - Economic aspects
Greenhouse gas mitigation - Economic aspects |
ISBN |
1-135-07404-6
0-203-06631-6 1-299-14103-X 1-135-07405-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Climate science for economists -- Damage functions and climate impacts -- Climate change impacts on natural systems -- Climate change impacts on human systems -- Climate economics before and after the stern review -- Uncertainty -- Public goods and public policy -- Economics and the climate policy debate -- Technologies for mitigation -- Economics of mitigation -- Adaptation -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786277503321 |
Ackerman Frank | ||
London : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Climate economics : the state of the art / / Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton |
Autore | Ackerman Frank |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 187 pages) |
Disciplina | 363.738/74 |
Collana | Routledge studies in ecological economics |
Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - Economic aspects
Greenhouse gas mitigation - Economic aspects |
ISBN |
1-135-07404-6
0-203-06631-6 1-299-14103-X 1-135-07405-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Climate science for economists -- Damage functions and climate impacts -- Climate change impacts on natural systems -- Climate change impacts on human systems -- Climate economics before and after the stern review -- Uncertainty -- Public goods and public policy -- Economics and the climate policy debate -- Technologies for mitigation -- Economics of mitigation -- Adaptation -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824381203321 |
Ackerman Frank | ||
London : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reclaiming nature : environmental justice and ecological restoration / / edited by James K. Boyce, Sunita Narain, and Elizabeth A. Stanton [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Anthem Press, , 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 428 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 363.7 |
Collana | Anthem studies in development and globalization |
Soggetto topico |
Environmental justice
Environmental management Restoration ecology |
ISBN |
9786613377487
1-84331-265-4 1-283-37748-9 1-84331-346-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The blessing of the commons : small-scale fisheries, community property rights, and coastal natural assets / John Kurien -- Natural resource management and poverty alleviation in mountain areas / Narpat S. Jodha -- Harvesting the rain : fighting ecological poverty through participatory democracy / Sunita Narain and Anil Agarwal -- Net benefits : the ecological restoration of inland fisheries in Bangladesh / M. Mokhlesur Rahman and Stephen F. Minkin -- Land reform and sustainable development / James K. Boyce, Peter Rosset and Elizabeth A. Stanton -- Extractive reserves : building natural assets in the Brazilian Amazon / Anthony Hall -- Mining rights and community rights : poverty amidst wealth / Karyn Keenan, José De Echave and Ken Traynor -- Natural assets and participatory forest management in West Africa / Kojo Sebastian Amanor -- Compensation for environmental services and rural communities : lessons from the Americas / Herman Rosa, Susan Kandel, Leopoldo Dimas and Deborah Barry -- Certification systems as tools for natural asset building / Michael E. Conroy -- Wastes as assets : limits and potentials / Eugene Gonzales -- Community rights and wildlife stewardship : Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE programme / James C. Murombedzi -- International environmental justice : building the natural assets of the world's poor / Krista Harper and S. Ravi Rajan -- Environmental justice : reflections from the United States / Manuel Pastor -- Equitable carbon revenue distribution under an international emissions trading regime / Nathan E. Hultman and Daniel M. Kammen -- Greenhouse justice : an entitlement framework for managing the global atmospheric commons / Sunita Narain and Matthew Riddle. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910466424903321 |
London : , : Anthem Press, , 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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