Climate Change and Economics: Engaging with Future Generations with Action Plans

✍ Scribed by S. Niggol Seo

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 278
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This textbook provides a broad introduction to the relationship between climate change, economics, and climate policy for young readers and future generations. It highlights the problem of intergenerational gaps and burden sharing on climate change. Taking on major contentious issues of today, it is rich with behavioural strategies and real life experiences which are explained in an accessible and engaging way. A diverse range of topics are covered, including farm animals of Sub-Sahara, Latin American rainforests, Indian monsoon agriculture, tropical cyclones in Bangladesh, sublime grasslands, energy revolutions, hydroelectric dams of China, backstop technologies, ocean exchanges with the atmosphere, mass extinction of species, commercial fisheries, infectious diseases and pandemics, and a climate policy big deal.

Climate Change and Economics: Engaging with Future Generations with Action Plans aims to engage with young readers and offer action plans for activists. It is relevant to students interested in environmental economics and environmental science.

✦ Table of Contents

Climate Change and Economics
Preface
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Climate Change and Economics with Young Activists: An Introduction
1.1 The Emergence of Generation-Z
1.2 Generation-Z and Future Generations
1.3 Climate Change Standing Alone
1.4 Climate Change in Tandem with Economy
1.5 Climate Change and Life
1.6 What Lies Ahead in the Book
1.7 Chapter Highlights
References
2 Friends of Animals: A Story of Sheep and Goats in the Sahel in Sub-Saharan Africa
2.1 Sub-Sahara and the Sahel
2.2 Agriculture and Ecosystems of Sub-Sahara
2.3 Farm Animals of Sub-Sahara
2.4 Livestock Management and Climate Change in Sub-Sahara
2.5 Key Takeaways
2.6 The Full Picture
2.7 Chapter Highlights
References
3 Giving Forests: A Tale of Amazon Rainforests and Congo River Forests
3.1 Forests and Global Warming
3.2 Amazon Rainforest
3.3 Carbon Cycle
3.4 Carbon Emissions from Deforestation and Land Use Changes
3.5 Economics: Forest Income and Livelihoods
3.6 Economics: Forest Growth Under Elevated CO2
3.7 Adaptation Decisions to Climate Change in Forestry
3.8 Planting Trees: Forests and Climate Change Initiatives
3.9 Chapter Highlights
References
4 Indian Monsoon: A Tale of Indian Water Buffaloes, Goats, and High-Yield Rice
4.1 Indian Monsoon
4.2 Indian Monsoon and Climate Change
4.3 Monsoon, Indian Farming, and Poverty
4.4 Indian Agriculture and Climate Change
4.5 Water Buffaloes and Goats
4.6 Livelihoods in the Indian Monsoon
4.7 Chapter Highlights
References
5 A Refuge from Oceans and Hurricanes: A Story of Cyclone Shelters in Bangladesh Abutting the Bay of Bengal
5.1 The World Oceans and Climate Change
5.2 Tropical Cyclones
5.3 Cyclone Fatalities in Bangladesh in the Indian Ocean
5.4 What Causes Human Fatalities: Wind Speed or Storm Surge?
5.5 Adaptation: Cyclone Shelters
5.6 Adaptation Options: Technologically Advanced
5.7 Chapter Highlights
References
6 Sublime Grasslands: A Story of the Pampas, Prairie, Steppe, and Savannas Where Animals Graze
6.1 Majestic Grasslands
6.2 The Planet’s Iconic Grasslands
6.2.1 The Pampas
6.2.2 The Llanos
6.2.3 The Prairie
6.2.4 African Savannas
6.2.5 The Steppe
6.2.6 Rangelands in Australia and New Zealand
6.3 Climate Benefits: Carbon Sink and Preservation of Soil Carbon
6.4 Livestock Management
6.5 Methane Reduction Micro-Technologies
6.6 Becoming a Vegetarian for the Sake of Earth
6.7 Chapter Highlights
References
7 Energy Revolutions: A Story of the Three Gorges Dam in China
7.1 Energy Consumptions and Global Warming
7.2 Fossil Fuels
7.3 Hydroelectricity as a Low-Carbon Renewable Energy
7.4 the Three Gorges Dam
7.5 Economics I: Go for Hydro Under a Warmer Planet?
7.6 Economics II: Is Hydroelectricity Too Costly like Solar Energy?
7.7 Livelihoods and Ecosystems
7.8 Chapter Highlights
References
8 Backstop Technologies: A Story of a Humble Greenhouse with Surprises
8.1 Greenhouse Effects
8.2 A Greenhouse
8.3 Greenhouse Technologies
8.4 Economics of Greenhouse Technologies
8.5 Economics of Incentives: Who Will Build the Backstop Technologies?
8.6 Your Life and Future: The End of Planetary Civilizations
8.7 Chapter Highlights
References
9 A Story of Polar Bears and Penguins: A Paradox of Biodiversity and Climate Change
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Biodiversity and the Treaty
9.3 The Paradox of Biodiversity and Global Warming
9.4 Will Global Warming Reduce Biodiversity Richness?
9.5 Should We Save Polar Bears and Penguins?
9.6 Final Words
9.7 Chapter Highlights
References
10 A Story of Coral Reefs, Nemo, and Fisheries: On Biodiversity Loss and Mass Extinction
10.1 Introduction
10.2 How Many Marine Species Are on Earth?
10.3 Can Coral Reefs Survive?
10.4 Fish Catch and Finding Nemo in Colder Seas?
10.5 Which Species to Be Preserved or Let Go to Extinction?
10.6 Final Words: The Resilient Oceans
10.7 Chapter Highlights
References
11 A Story of Infectious Diseases and Pandemics: Will Climate Change Increase Deadly Viruses?
11.1 The Novel Coronavirus and Pandemics
11.2 Climate Change and Infectious Diseases
11.3 Smallpox: A Success Story of Eradication of a Deadly Virus
11.4 Anthroponoses for Humans: Flu and Malaria
11.5 Zoonoses for Farm Animals: Sleeping Sickness and Tsetse Flies
11.6 Pandemics and Novel Viruses in the Twenty-First Century
11.7 Final Words on the Climate Connection
11.8 Chapter Highlights
References
12 Climate Negotiations: The Science of a Big Deal?
12.1 Introduction to a Global Deal on Climate Change
12.2 The First IPCC Report on Climate Change
12.3 The Establishment of the UNFCCC Institution
12.4 Kyoto Protocol: The Emergence of Economic Problems
12.5 Paris Agreement: A Non-binding Big Deal?
12.6 The Green Climate Fund
12.7 Overcome Challenges or Seek an Alternative Path?
12.8 Chapter Highlights
References
13 Climate Change and Economics with Young Enthusiasts: Inter-generational Gaps and Burden Sharing
Appendix: A Brief Exposition of the Essential Economic Theories Used in this Book
A Theory of Interest
Discounting the Future Consumption
Efficiency in Resource Allocations
Pareto Optimality or Efficiency
Public Goods
Globally-shared Goods
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Green GDP
Land Value and Rent
Risk and Uncertainty
Managing the Risk: Saving and Futures
Managing the Risk: Insurance
References
Index
13.1 What Does It All Mean?
13.2 The Price of Carbon
13.3 Generational Gaps
13.4 Inter-generational Burden Sharing: Fair or Unfair
13.5 The Choice: Selfish, Selfless, or Rational?
13.6 Between You and the Planet: National Gaps
13.7 What the Future Holds for Young Climate Activists
13.8 Chapter Highlights
References