Synopses & Reviews
Review
y peers involved in water resources research and to practitioners at water utilities of any size.
American Journal of Agricutural Economics
D.C. Hall
...Eleven essays advance the economic analysis of climate change by focusing on key assumptions that are implicit in most existing studies and making explicit connections between policy choices and economic outcomes.
Journal of Economic Literature
Synopsis
Contains scenarios of geophysical and economic impacts from global warming beyond a doubling of greenhouse gases. This work examines geophysical, ecological, and economic impacts, alternative scenarios with and without policy intervention, institutional change, political-economic barriers to effective policy, and prescriptions for change.
Synopsis
This volume will include scenarios of geophysical and economic impacts from global warming beyond a doubling of greenhouse gases. Analyses will examine geophysical, ecological, and economic impacts, physical and institutional lags, alternative scenarios with and without policy intervention, institutional change, political-economic barriers to effective policy, and prescriptions for change. Perspectives will include those from physical and biological sciences, as well as economics.
Table of Contents
Beyond a doubling: issues in the long-term economics of climate change (R.B. Howarth, D.C. Hall). Integrated assessment models of climate change: beyond a doubling of CO
2 (S.H. Schneider, K. Kunstz-Duriseti). Evaluating a regional adaptation to climate change: the case of California water (B.M. Haddad, K. Merritt). Climate variability and climate change: implications for agriculture (R.M. Adams
et al.). Ocean thermal lag and comparative dynamics of damage to agriculture from global warming (D.C. Hall). Complexity in organizations: consequences for climate policy analysis (S.J. DeCanio
et al.). Technology and greenhouse gas emissions: an integrated scenario analysis using the LBNL-NEMS model (J.G. Koomey
et al.). Prices versus policy: which path to clean technology? (E. Goodstein). Energy efficiency and petroleum depletion in climate change policy (N. Khanna, D. Chapman). The clean development mechanism and its controversies (L. Karp, X. Liu). Overlapping generations versus infinitely-lived agent: the case of global warming (R. Gerlagh, B.C.C. van der Zwaan). Climate rights and economic modeling (R.B. Howarth).