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Format: 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-78308-024-8

Series Statement: Anthem environment and sustainability

Content: Ambitious measures to reduce carbon emissions are all too rare in reality, impeded by economic and political concerns rather than technological advances. In this timely collection of essays, Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton show that the impact of inaction on climate change will be far worse than the cost of ambitious climate policies.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Dec 2017). , ""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"" , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-306-86920-X

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-78308-020-5

Language: English

URL: Volltext

URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781783080243/type/BOOK