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Climate Change Adaptation: Lessons from Urban Economics / Matthew E. Kahn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kahn, Matthew E.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w20716.
- NBER working paper series no. w20716
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Government policy.
- Climatic changes.
- Climatic changes--Government policy--Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Climate Change
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014.
- Summary:
- In an urbanizing world economy featuring thousands of cities, households and firms have strong incentives to make locational investments and self protection choices to reduce their exposure to new climate change induced risks. This pursuit of self interest reduces the costs imposed by climate change. This paper develops a dynamic compensating differentials model to explore how the "menu" offered by a system of cities insures us against emerging risks. Insights from urban economics offer a series of testable hypotheses concerning the economic incidence of spatially tied climate change risk.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Adaptation and mitigation
- What is adaptation
- Why adaptation
- International activities
- Funding
- Adaptation in current negotiations under the United Nations framework convention on climate change
- Domestic activities
- Impacts in Canada
- Federal efforts
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 2014.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- OCLC:
- 503048911
- Publisher Number:
- 219849 CaOOCEL (Public Documents)
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