Distributional Aspects of Energy and Climate Policies - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1782540083 ISBN 13 : 9781782540083

Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Governments around the globe have begun to implement various actions to limit carbon emissions and so, combat climate change. This book brings together some of the leading scholars in environmental and climate economics to examine the distributional consequences of policies that are designed to reduce these carbon emissions.

Whether through a carbon tax, cap-and-trade system or other mechanisms, most proposals to reduce carbon emissions include some kind of carbon pricing system - shifting the costs of emissions onto polluters and providing an incentive to find the least costly methods of abatement. This standard efficiency justification for pricing carbon also has important distributional consequences - a problem that is often ignored by economists while being a major focus of attention in the political arena. Leading scholars in environmental and climate economics take up these issues to examine such questions as: Will the costs fall on current or future generations? Will they fall on the rich, poor, middle class, or on everyone proportionally? Which countries will benefit, and which will suffer?

Students and scholars interested in climate change, along with policy makers, will find this lively volume an invaluable addition to the quest for information on this globally important issue.

Contributors include: S. Barrett, G.S. Becker, J. Blonz, C. Boehringer, D. Burtraw, M.A. Cohen, M. Deshpande, S. Devarajan, J. Elliott, C. Fischer, I. Foster, D. Fullerton, R. Goettle, M. Greenstone, T. Hertel, G. Heutel, M.S. Ho, D.W. Jorgenson, K. Judd, L. Kaplow, C.D. Kolstad, S. Kortum, A.M. Levinson, R.D. Ludema, G.E. Metcalf, E. Moyer, T. Munson, K.M. Murphy, S. Paltsev, I.W.H. Parry, W. Randolph, S. Rausch, J.M. Reilly, K.E. Rosendahl, D.T. Slesnick, R.H. Topel, M.A. Walls, D.A. Weisbach, M.L. Weitzman, P.J. Wilcoxen, R.C. Williams

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Edited by Mark A. Cohen, Professor of Management and Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management and University Fellow, Resources for the Future, US, Don Fullerton, Gutgsell Professor of Finance, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, US and Robert H. Topel, Isidore Brown and Gladys J. Brown Distinguished Service Professor in Urban and Labor Economics, University of Chicago, US

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782540083
• ISBN 13: 9781782540083
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 392
• Éditeur: Cohen Mark A., Fullerton Don, Topel Robert H.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible