Climate Economics: Economic Analysis of Climate, Climate Change and Climate Policy, Second Edition

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Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019 - Climatic changes - 256 pages

This unique and erudite second edition can be used at three different levels – advanced undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral. It comprehensively covers the critical issues on the economics of climate change and climate policy features and clearly identifies the specific sections each level of reader should explore. Topics include the costs and benefits of adaptation and mitigation, discounting, uncertainty, policy instruments, and international agreements. Lectures can be combined with exercises, guided reading, or the building and application of an integrated assessment model. The book is accompanied by a website with background material, data, opinion pieces and videos. Although primarily intended for use in the classroom, anyone with an interest in climate policy can use this text as a reference.
 

 

Contents

Chapter 1 The science of climate change
1
Chapter 2 Emissions scenarios and options for emission reduction
15
Chapter 3 Abatement costs
31
Chapter 4 Policy instruments for emission reduction
49
Chapter 5 Impacts and valuation
77
Chapter 6 Impacts of climate change
91
Chapter 7 Climate and development
107
Chapter 8 Adaptation policy
117
Chapter 10 Discounting
143
Chapter 11 Uncertainty
155
Chapter 12 Equity
173
Chapter 13 International environmental agreements
187
Chapter 14 Building an integrated assessment model
205
Chapter 15 How to solve the climate problem?
225
Index
233
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Chapter 9 Optimal climate policy
125

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