Sustainability for a warming planet /

The authors provide a normative approach to global warming that they call sustainability. It consists in finding an economic path that, while satisfying environmental and other constraints, would maintain human welfare for all future generations. They also explain why the current discounted utilitar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Llavador, Humberto (Autor), Roemer, John E. (Autor), Silvestre, Joaquim (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Colección:EBL-Schweitzer
Temas:
Climate change mitigation.
Greenhouse gas mitigation.
Carbon sequestration.
Climat > Changements > Atténuation.
Gaz à effet de serre > Réduction.
Piégeage du carbone.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
Carbon sequestration
Climate change mitigation
Greenhouse gas mitigation
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Sustainability and Discounted Utilitarianism
  • 2. An Introductory Model with Education and Skilled Labor
  • 3. Sustainability for a Warming World
  • 4. The "Climate-Change Economics" Literature: Nordhaus and Stern
  • 5. Sustainability in a Warming, Two- Region World
  • 6. Modeling Catastrophes: Two Extensions
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A: Calibration
  • Appendix B: Mathematica Code
  • References
  • Index.

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