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The economics of climate change : adaptations past and present /

While debates over the consequences of climate change are often pessimistic, historical data from the past two centuries indicate many viable opportunities for responding to potential changes. This volume takes a close look at the ways in which economies-particularly that of the United States-have a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Libecap, Gary D. (Editor ), Steckel, Richard H. (Richard Hall), 1944- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Colección:National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Climate change: adaptations in historical perspective / Gary D. Libecap and Richard H. Steckel
  • Additive damages, fat-tailed climate dynamics, and uncertain discounting / Martin L. Weitzman
  • Modeling the impact of warming in climate change economics / Robert S. Pindyck
  • Droughts, floods and financial distress in the United States / John Landon-Lane, Hugh Rockoff, and Richard H. Steckel
  • The effects of weather shocks on crop prices in unfettered markets: the United States prior to the farm programs, 1895-1932 / Jonathan Fox, Price V. Fishback, and Paul W. Rhode
  • Information and the impact of climate and weather on mortality rates during the Great Depression / Price V. Fishback, Werner Troesken, Trevor Kollmann, Michael Haines, Paul W. Rhode and Melissa Thomasson
  • Responding to climatic challenges: lessons from U.S. agricultural development / Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode
  • The impact of the 1936 corn-belt drought on american farmers' adoption of hybrid corn / Richard Sutch
  • The evolution of heat tolerance of corn: implications for climate change / Michael J. Roberts and Wolfram Schlenker
  • Climate variability and water infrastructure: historical experience in the western United States / Zeynep K. Hansen, Gary D. Libecap, and Scott E. Lowe
  • Did Frederick Brodie discover the world's first environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal smoke and the rise and fall of the London fog / Karen Clay and Werner Troesken
  • Impacts of climate change on residential electricity consumption: evidence from billing data / Anin Aroonruengsawat and Maximilian Auffhammer.