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Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change Adaptation - Couverture rigide

 
9780415633116: Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change Adaptation
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0415633117 ISBN 13 : 9780415633116
Editeur : Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty regarding future impacts, which affect all regions and many ecosystems. Many publications deal with economic issues relating to mitigation policies, but the economics of adaptation to climate change has received comparatively little attention. However, this area is is critical and a central pillar of any adaptation strategy or plan and is the economic dimension, which therefore merits the increase in attention it is receiving.

This book deals with the difficulties that face the economics of adaptation. Critical issues include: uncertainty; baselines; reversibility, flexibility and adaptive management; distributional impacts; discount rates and time horizons; mixing monetary and non-monetary evaluations and limits to the use of cost-benefit analysis; economy-wide impacts and cross-sectoral linkages. All of these are addressed in the book from the perspective of economics of adaptation. Other dimensions of adaptation are also included, such as the role of low- and middle-income countries, technology and the impacts of extreme events.

This timely book will prove essential reading for international researchers and policy makers in the fields of natural resources, environmental economics and climate change.

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À propos de l'auteur

Anil Markandya is Scientific Director of the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), an Ikerbasque Research Professor, and an affiliate of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

Ibon Galarraga is Deputy Director and Research Professor at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) and an affiliate of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

Elisa Sainz de Murieta is a junior researcher at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415633117
ISBN 13 
9780415633116
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
464
Éditeur
Markandya Anil, Galarraga Ibon, Sainz De Murieta Elisa
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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