A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies - Couverture rigide

Nordhaus, William D.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300137486 ISBN 13 : 9780300137484

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2008

Synopsis

As scientific and observational evidence on global warming piles up every day, questions of economic policy in this central environmental topic have taken centre 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. Ecologists see global warming as a threat to ecosystems, utilities as a debit to their 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.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

William Nordhaus is Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0300137486
• ISBN 13: 9780300137484
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192