Greenhouse Economics : Value and Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780415127189 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 320 str.

Clive L. Spash

Opis

Examining the serious nature of global warming, this work explores the responsibilities the late-20th century generation might have to its successors, and how this should influence our economic approach. It challenges literature on greenhouse economics, which has tended to shy away from these issues. The book should be of interest to advanced undergraduates and post graduates in environmental economics and ecological economics.

Spis treści

1. Climate Change: Introducing Some of the Issues 2. Scientific Understanding of the Enhanced Greenhouse Effect  3. Impacts of Global Climate Change 4. Weak Uncertainty: Risk and Imperfect Information 5. Strong Uncertainty: Ignorance and Indeterminacy 6. Calculating the Cost and Benefits of GHG Control 7. Loading the Dice? Values, Opinions and Ethics 8. Dividing Time and Discounting the Future 9. Economics, Ethics and Future Generations 10. Science, Economics and Policy

O autorze

Professor Clive Spash is the Head of the Socio-Economic Research Programme at the Macaulay Institute and also holds the Research Chair in Environmental and Rural Economics at the University of Aberdeen. He is President of the European Society for Ecological Economics.