Economics and Policy Issues in Climate Change

ISBN-13: 9780915707959 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 336 str.

William D. Nordhaus

Opis

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.

O autorze

William D. Nordhaus is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is a recognized authority on climate change: among his books are Managing the Global Commons and The Swedish Nuclear Dilemma: Energy and the Environment (RFF, 1997). He is coauthor (with Paul Samuelson) of Economics, now in its sixteenth edition.