Economics and the challenge of global warming / Charles S. Pearson.

Call Number	363.738/74
Author	Pearson, Charles S., author.
Title	Economics and the challenge of global warming / Charles S. Pearson. Economics & the Challenge of Global Warming
Physical Description	1 online resource (xi, 231 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	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.
Summary	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 its theoretical and empirical underpinnings. It is addressed to all who have some knowledge of economic concepts and a serious interest in how economics can (and cannot) help in crafting climate policy. The book is organized around three central questions. First, can benefit-cost analysis guide us in setting warming targets? Second, what strategies and policies are cost-effective? Third, and most difficult, can a global agreement be forged between rich and poor, North and South? While economic concepts are foremost in the analysis, they are placed within an accessible ethical and political matrix. The book serves as a primer for the post-Kyoto era.
Subject	Climatic changes Economic aspects. Global warming Economic aspects.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511984648

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Summary	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 its theoretical and empirical underpinnings. It is addressed to all who have some knowledge of economic concepts and a serious interest in how economics can (and cannot) help in crafting climate policy. The book is organized around three central questions. First, can benefit-cost analysis guide us in setting warming targets? Second, what strategies and policies are cost-effective? Third, and most difficult, can a global agreement be forged between rich and poor, North and South? While economic concepts are foremost in the analysis, they are placed within an accessible ethical and political matrix. The book serves as a primer for the post-Kyoto era.
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	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.
Subject	Climatic changes Economic aspects. Global warming Economic aspects.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511984648