Global climate change : the science, economics, and politics / edited by James M. Griffin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Griffin, James M., 1944-

Series:

New horizons in environmental economics

Bush School series in the economics of public policy ; v. 4.

Bush School series in the economics of public policy ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

xiv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2003]

Contents:

1 Introduction: the many dimensions of the climate change issue / James M. Griffin 1

2 The carbon cycle: human perturbations and potential management options / William H. Schlesinger 25

3 Climate change over the next century / Gerald R. North 45

4 Benefit-cost analysis and climate-change policy / Lawrence H. Goulder 67

5 Assessing the market damages from climate change / Robert Mendelsohn 92

6 The difficulties of estimating global non-market damages from climate change / Joel B. Smith, Jeffrey K. Lazo, Brian Hurd 114

7 What are the costs of limiting CO[subscript 2] concentrations? / James A. Edmonds, Ronald D. Sands 140

8 Energy, the environment and the economy: hedging our bets / Alan S. Manne 187

9 International agreements and the struggle to tame carbon / David G. Victor 204

10 Five letters to the President 230

A letter to President George W. Bush / Lennart Hjalmarssen 230

A letter to President George W. Bush / Paul Portney 241

A letter to President George W. Bush / John P. Weyant 244

A letter to President George W. Bush / Robert L. Bradley, Jr. 248

A letter to President George W. Bush / James A. Edmonds 254.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1843761904

OCLC:

50270029