Global Warming and the Asian Pacific

ISBN-13: 9781843764199 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 328 str.

Ching-Cheng Chang;Robert Mendelsohn;Daigee Shaw

Opis

This work examines the problem of global warming from the perspective of Asian-Pacific countries. The unprecedented economic and demographic growth since the 1980s has increased the importance of the Asian-Pacific region. It has become both a very large source of greenhouse gases as well as an important site to measure climate change impacts. international input-output models and engineering-economic models are used to assess the baseline emission levels and abatement costs for the economies examined. All outcomes suggest that abatement is possible, but will be expensive. The studies also suggest that the more energy efficient the economy, the higher the costs of further abatement. The book reveals how Asian countries in the tropics are more likely to be harmed than those in the temperate zone. conservation, emission permit trading, carbon tax and carbon sequestration are examined to tackle the difficult problem of establishing effective policy tools to control warming in the Asian-Pacific and the globe. While no single author provides a complete answer to this complex problem, all authors provide vital information and new ideas with which to fashion workable international and regional policies.