UID:
kobvindex_INTNLM010891587
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 171 p)
,
ill
ISBN:
9781781953280
Series Statement:
Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
Content:
How did climate change become an economic issue? Why is economic discourse so influential on the public policy of climate change? How can it best contribute to the scientific and public debates? Nine eminent scholars explain in this book both how economics has changed environmental understanding and how the study of climate change has modified the economy
Content:
Introduction : changing climate, changing economists? / Jean-Philippe Touffut -- Climate change : a bundle of uncertainties / Thomas Schelling -- Comments: Towards an enlightened form of doomsaying / Jean-Pierre Dupuy -- Economics in the environmental crisis : part of the solution or part of the problem? / Olivier Godard -- Building scenarios : how climate change became an economic question / Michel Armatte -- In defence of sensible economics / Thomas Sterner -- Some basic economics of extreme climate change / Martin L. Weitzman -- Round table discussion: Economics and climate change : where do we stand and where do we go from here? / Inge Kaul ... [and others]
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Available in another form ISBN 1848448368(alk.paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848448377(pbk.:alk.paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1848448376(pbk.:alk.paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848448360(hardback)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1848448368
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1848448376
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848448360
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848448377
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4337/9781781953280
URL:
FULL
((Currently Only Available on Campus))
