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"Economics and the Challenge of Global Warming is a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the role of economics in confronting global warming, the central environmental issue of the twenty-first century. It avoids a technical exposition in order to reach a wide audience and is up to date in it...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pearson, Charles S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Climatic changes > Economic aspects.
Global warming > Economic aspects.
Climat > Changements > Aspect économique.
Réchauffement de la Terre > Aspect économique.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Pollution Control.
Climatic changes > Economic aspects
Global warming > Economic aspects
Klimatförändringar > ekonomiska aspekter.
Global uppvärmning > ekonomiska aspekter.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction and a roadmap
  • 1. Climate change: background information
  • 2. The role of benefit cost in climate policy
  • 3. Discounting and social weighting (aggregating over time and space)
  • 4. Empirical estimates: a tasting menu
  • 5. Strategic responses
  • 6. Targets and tools
  • 7. Trade and global warming
  • 8. The challenge of international cooperation
  • 9. Beyond Kyoto
  • 10. A summing-up.

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