ISBN-13: 9780915707959 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 336 str.
ISBN-13: 9780915707959 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 336 str.
Global climate change has emerged as one of the most challenging and controversial policy issues. In this volume, a group of scholars examines economic and social aspects of the far-reaching phenomenon. Although the 1997 summit in Kyoto focused world attention on climate, it was just one step in an ongoing process. Research by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been ongoing since 1988. An extensive IPCC Working Group report published in 1995 examined the economic and social aspects of climate change. In this volume, economists assess the IPCC report and address the questions which emerge. The result is a look at the actual realities of climate change and some methods (and difficulties) of dealing with them.