Economics and Policy Issues in Climate Change - Couverture souple

Nordhaus, William D.

 
9781138376595: Economics and Policy Issues in Climate Change
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1138376590 ISBN 13 : 9781138376595
Editeur : RFF Press, 2018

Synopsis

Although the negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol focused world attention on the global climate, it was just one step in the ongoing process of addressing climate change in all its facets. Research by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been ongoing since 1988. An extensive IPCC Working Group report published in 1995 examined the economic and social aspects of climate change. In this volume, eminent analysts assess that IPCC report and address the questions that emerge from it. The result is an instructive and cogent look at the realities of climate change and some methods (and difficulties) of dealing with them. William Nordhaus's introduction establishes the context for the book. It provides basic scientific background on climate change, reviews the IPCC's activities, and explains the genesis of the analyses. Subsequent contributions fall into two categories. Early chapters review analytical issues critical to social and economic understanding of climate change. A second set of chapters address specific economic questions surrounding climate-change policy. The result is an original and significant contribution to the evolving debate on this crucial hot-button topic.

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À propos de l?auteur

William D. Nordhaus is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is a recognized authority on climate change: among his books are Managing the Global Commons and The Swedish Nuclear Dilemma: Energy and the Environment (RFF, 1997). He is coauthor (with Paul Samuelson) of Economics, now in its sixteenth edition.

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Éditeur
RFF Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1138376590
ISBN 13 
9781138376595
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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