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The behavioral economics of climate change : adaptation behaviors, global public goods, breakthrough technologies, and policy-making /
The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change: Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making shows readers how to understand mitigation strategies emerging from global warming policy discussions and the ways that changing climate conditions can alter these stra...
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London :
Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier,
[2017]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Title page; Table of contents; Copyright; Author Profile; Preface; Companion website; 1. An introduction to the behavioral economics of climate change for provision of global public goods; 1. Global public goods in the modern world; 2. Global warming as a global public good; 3. The science of global warming; 4. Economics of an optimal provision of global warming; 5. Technological innovations: breakthroughs and incremental advances; 6. An adaptation paradigm of global warming policy; 7. International negotiations for a global public good; 8. Road map of the book
- 2. The theory of public goods and their efficient provisions; 1. Introduction to the theory of public goods; 2. Defining characteristics of a public good; 3. A spatial dimension of public goods; 4. Pareto optimality in provision of a public good; 5. Market provision of a public good; 6. Environmental disamenities as a public good; 7. Policy instruments for an optimal provision of the public good; 8. Moral suasion, private provision, and Lindahl Equilibrium; 9. Valuation methods and a benefit-cost analysis; 10. Uncertainty: price versus quantity
- 11. Environmental justice: price versus a cap-and-trade; 12. Extending discussions to global public goods; 13. Plans for the next chapters; 3. Designing global warming policies and major challenges; 1. Introduction; 2. Distinct characteristics of global warming; 3. Contrasts with other global public goods; 4. The standard-bearer: a Samuelson-Nordhaus framework; 5. Major challenges to global warming policy; 6. Conclusion and plans for the ensuing chapters; 4. A globally optimal carbon price policy from noncooperative behavioral standpoints; 1. Introduction
- 2. Rolling the DICE: a Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and Economy; 3. Calibrations of major contentious parameters of the DICE model; 4. Future trajectories of climate change and policy variables; 5. Diverging behavioral incentives for actions under a business-as-usual scenario; 6. Alterations of behavioral incentives under an optimal climate policy scenario; 7. Alterations of behavioral incentives through monetary transfers; 8. Conclusion and moving forward; 5. Breakthrough technologies: technological innovations as an alternative global warming solution; 1. Introduction
- 2. A survey of breakthrough technologies; 3. A Survey of microincremental technologies; 4. Adopt now? The cost of backstop technologies; 5. Inducing technological innovations: subsidy or tax?; 6. Technological uncertainties and option value; 7. Conclusion; 6. Adaptation paradigm as an alternative global warming policy; 1. Inevitability of adapting to global warming; 2. Adaptation paradigm as an alternative global warming policy; 3. Distinguishing features from other approaches; 4. Adaptation paradigms explained by agents and sectors; 5. Adaptation strategies in natural resource enterprises
- 6. Adaptation strategies in changes in Ocean environments; 7. A time line of adaptation paradigm with mitigation potentials; 8. Conclusion; 7. Negotiating a global public good: lessons from global warming conferences and future directions; 1. Introduction; 2. Institutional foundations; 3. Major outcomes from the COPS; 4. Green climate fund; 5. Non-UNFCCC agreements; 6. Where do international negotiations go from here?; Index.