Global Climate Change: The Economic Costs of Mitigation and Adaptation

ISBN-13: 9780444016478 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 438 str.

James C. White;Center for Environmental Information

Opis

Bacteria in a test tube and humans on our planet follow the same population curve as time elapses. We on this earth, largely through control of disease, are rapidly ap proaching maximum population, and through energy demands are using up our resour ces and accumulating wastes. We have come to realize the danger of a maturing system but have made essential ly no impact in mitigating or preventing the problems we face. While we have been able to change the world we live in, most of our effects have been to degrade the planet. We have nibbled away at the quality of the atmosphere for centuries and the ac cumulated damage has resulted in changing the world's climate at an ever-increasing rate. We now face the possibility of higher average temperatures over most of our planet, changing patterns of rainfall, rising sea levels, aggravated storm systems and a myriad of social effects."

Spis treści

Managing Planet Earth.- How Should We Address the Economic Costs of Climate Change?.- Some Economics of Global Climate Change: The View from the Developing Countries.- Why Climate Change is Not a Cost/Benefit Problem.- CO2 and SO2: Consistent Policy Making in a Greenhouse.- How Should We Address Economic Costs of Climate Change?.- Dealing with the Economic Costs of Climate Change Mitigation: A Perspective from the Automotive Industry.- Weighing the Costs and Benefits of Climate Change Policies.- Benefits of Mitigation and Adaptation.- Methods of Analysis.- Current Analysis of Economic Costs.- The Cost of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States.- Saving Money and Reducing the Risk of Climate Change Through Greater Energy Efficiency.- Global CO2 Emission Reductions: The Impacts of Rising Energy Costs.- Carbon Sequestration Versus Fossil Fuel Substitution: Alternative Roles for Biomass in Coping With Greenhouse Warming.- to Respondents Panel on Current Analyses of Economic Costs.- A Critical Analysis of Climate Change Policy Research.- Benefit-Cost Analysis.- Economic Modeling of Global Climate: Comparing Approaches.- Opening Remarks: International Panel.- Global Funding for the Environment: Perspectives of Developing Countries and Relevance of Economic Costing.- The Prospects and Economic Costs of the Reduction of CO2 Emissions in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).- Sustainable Energy-Environmental Policy Options for the Developing World.- Climate Policy in the European Community and Its Economic Aspects.- Japan’s Policy on Global Warming.- Summation.- Conference Participants.- Conference Program.