Başlık:
The climate casino : risk, uncertainty, and economics for a warming world
Yazar:
Nordhaus, William D. author
ISBN:
9780300212648
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
xiii, 378 pages ; 25 cm.
İçerik:
Acknowledgments xi Note to Readers xiii PART I THE GENESIS OF CLIMATE CHANGE 1 First Encounters in the Climate Casino 3 (9) 2 A Tale of Two Lakes 12 (5) 3 The Economic Origins of Climate Change 17 (19) 4 Future Climate Change 36 (14) 5 Tipping Points in the Climate Casino 50 (19) PART II IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON HUMAN AND OTHER LIVING SYSTEMS 6 From Climate Change to Impacts 69 (9) 7 The Fate of Farming 78 (13) 8 The Impact on Human Health 91 (9) 9 Perils for the Oceans 100 (16) 10 Intensification of Hurricanes 116 (6) 11 Wildlife and Species Loss 122 (13) 12 Adding Up the Damages from Climate Change 135 (14) PART III SLOWING CLIMATE CHANGE: STRATEGIES AND COSTS 13 Dealing with Climate Change: Adaptation and Geoengineering 149 (8) 14 Slowing Climate Change by Reducing Emissions: Mitigation 157 (12) 15 The Costs of Slowing Climate Change 169 (13) 16 Discounting and the Value of Time 182 (15) PART IV POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS FOR SLOWING CLIMATE CHANGE 17 Historical Perspectives on Climate Policy 197 (8) 18 Climate Policy by Balancing Costs and Benefits 205 (15) 19 The Central Role of Carbon Prices 220 (13) 20 Climate-Change Policies at the National Level 233 (11) 21 From National to Harmonized International Policies 244 (15) 22 Second Best and Beyond 259 (15) 23 New Technologies for a Low-Carbon Economy 274 (19) PART V CLIMATE POLITICS 24 Climate Science and Its Critics 293 (10) 25 Public Opinion on Climate Change 303 (13) 26 Obstacles to Climate-Change Policies 316 (11) Notes 327 (38) Index 365
Özet:
Presents an analysis of the economics and politics of the central environmental issue and discusses the steps necessary to reduce the perils of global warming. Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how. Bringing together all the important issues surrounding the climate debate, Nordhaus describes the science, economics, and politics involved—and the steps necessary to reduce the perils of global warming. Using language accessible to any concerned citizen and taking care to present different points of view fairly, he discusses the problem from start to finish: from the beginning, where warming originates in our personal energy use, to the end, where societies employ regulations or taxes or subsidies to slow the emissions of gases responsible for climate change. Nordhaus offers a new analysis of why earlier policies, such as the Kyoto Protocol, failed to slow carbon dioxide emissions, how new approaches can succeed, and which policy tools will most effectively reduce emissions. In short, he clarifies a defining problem of our times and lays out the next critical steps for slowing the trajectory of global warming.
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Library | Materyal Türü | Demirbaş | Yer Numarası | Durumu / Lokasyon / İade Tarihi |
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Arıyor... | Kitap | EKOBKN0001179 | 363.73874 NOR 2013 | Arıyor... |