Greenhouse Economics: Value and Ethics

✍ Scribed by Clive Spash

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 315
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This important book examines one of the most crucial issues in the modern world: climate change. With a refreshing interdisciplinary perspective that pulls together strands of natural science, economics and ethics, Greenhouse Economics poses some serious questions and offers intelligent answers.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
1 Climate change: introducing some of the issues......Page 18
2 Scientific understanding of the enhanced Greenhouse Effect......Page 42
3 Impacts of global climate change......Page 77
4 Weak uncertainty: risk and imperfect information......Page 114
5 Strong uncertainty: ignorance and indeterminacy......Page 137
6 Calculating the cost and benefits of GHG control......Page 170
7 Loading the dice? Values, opinions and ethics......Page 201
8 Dividing time and discounting the future......Page 218
9 Economics, ethics and future generations......Page 238
10 Science, economics and policy......Page 268
Glossary......Page 300
Index......Page 303

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