The Coupling of Climate and Economic Dynamics: Essays on Integrated Assessment

ISBN-13: 9789048168613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 384 str.

Alain Haurie; Laurent Viguier

Opis

This book reviews the different approaches used to model the dynamic interactions between climate and economies, and proposes new avenues of research. Its fourteen chapters deal with various aspects of the building of integrated assessment models, either by coupling economic growth and climate change modules, or using mathematical models of viability or dynamic game theory to represent the interactions between the world regions concerned.

Spis treści

Dedication, Contributing Authors, Preface, Foreword, Acknowledgments 1. Linking Climate and Economic Dynamics; Neil Edwards, Hubert Greppin, Alain Haurie and Laurent Viguier 2. Coupling Climate and Economic Dynamics: Recent Achievements and Unresolved Problems; F.L. Toth 3. An Oracle Method to Couple Climate and Economic Dynamics; Cesar Beltran, Laurent Drouet, Neil R. Edwards, Alain B. Haurie, Jean-Philippe Vial and Daniel S. Zachary 4. An abrupt stochastic damage function to analyze climate policy Benefits; Patrice Dumas and Minh Ha-Duong 5. A Viability Approach to Global Climate Change Issues; Jean-Pierre Aubin, Telma Bernado and Patrick Saint-Pierre 6. Climate Policy Cooperation Games between Developed and Developing Nations: A Quantitative, Applied Analysis; Claudia Kemfert 7. Back to Kyoto? US Participation and the Linkage between R&D and Climate Cooperation; Barbara Buchner, Carlo Carraro, Igor Cersosimo and Carmen Marchiori 8. Global Energy and CO2 Emission Scenarios: Analysis with a 15-Region World MARKAL Model; Maryse Labriet Richard Loulou Amit Kanudia 9. Flexible Carbon Mitigation Policies: Analysis with a Global Multi-regional MARKAL Model; Peter Rafaj, Socrates Kypreos and Leonardo Barreto 10. Air Pollution Health Effects: Toward an Integrated Assessment ; Trent Yang, John Reilly and Sergey Paltsev 11. Carbon Tax and International Emissions Trading: A Swiss Perspective; Alain Bernard, Marc Vielle and Laurent Viguier 12. An Overview of Extreme Climatic Events in Switzerland: Implications for Assessing Economic Damages and Costs; Martin Beniston 13. Swiss agriculture in a changing climate; Pierluigi Calanca and Jürg Fuhrer 14. Modelling Climate Change Impacts and Vulnerability in Switzerland; Ana Priceputu andHubert Greppin

Blurb

Climate and economies have interdependent dynamics. Even though the pace of climate change is probably much slower than the speed of adjustment of the world economies, the global climate change impact of economic development and growth has to be controlled and taken into account in the policy assessment process. Integrated assessment models are now trying to capture the different feedbacks that link the climate system and the development of human societies. This book reviews the different approaches used to model these dynamic interactions between climate and economies and proposes new avenues of research in this domain. In fourteen chapters this book deals with various aspects of the building of integrated assessment models, either by coupling economic growth and climate change modules, or using mathematical models of viability or dynamic game theory to represent the interactions between the world regions concerned. It also focuses on more specific economic equilibrium models that can be used to assess international climate policies and it addresses the modelling of impacts of climate change in Switzerland as a test region.

This book is the result of several years of joint research in an interdisciplinary project on the human dimension of climate change. It proposes innovative ways to include climate simulation modules in optimal economic growth models; it explores the possible use of computable general economic equilibrium models coupled with paradigms of game theory to assess the dividends of cooperation in climate policies; it reports on the building of multi-region dynamic energy-technology-environment models to assess the possible response of the world energy system to a global cap on GHG emissions, and it shows how to model the impacts of climate change at a regional level.

This book is meant to serve as a reference work for researchers and graduate students who engage in interdisciplinary studies at the boundary between Earth and Social sciences.