edited by Partha Dasgupta, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, V. Kerry Smith
Front Cover -- Handbook of Environmental Economics -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction to the Series -- Preface -- 1 Modeling coupled climate, ecosystems, and economic systems -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Coupled Ecological/Economic Modeling for Robustness -- 2.1 Robust Control Methods in Coupled Ecological/Economic Systems -- 2.1.1 An Introduction to Robust Control Methods -- 2.1.2 A Deterministic Approximation to Robust Control Methods in Ecosystem Management -- 3 Climate Economics with Emphasis on New Modeling: Carbon Budgeting and Robustness -- 3.1 Cumulative Carbon Budgeting to Implement Temperature Limits -- 3.1.1 Deterministic Case: The Simplest Possible Model -- 3.1.2 Robust Emission Control with Multiplicative Uncertainty -- 3.1.3 Cumulative Carbon Budgeting and Climate Changes Damages -- 3.2 Climate Change Policy with Multiple Lifetime for Greenhouse Gases -- 4 Implementation -- 5 Energy Balance Climate Models and Spatial Transport Phenomena -- 5.1 Spatial Pattern Scaling -- 5.2 Discounting for Climate Change -- 6 Spatial Aspects in Economic/Ecological Modeling -- 7 Future Directions -- 7.1 Bottom Up Implementation Rather than Top Down Implementation -- 7.2 Stochastic Modeling and Computational Approaches -- 7.3 Bifurcations and Tipping Points -- Appendix A -- A.1 Robust Control Methods -- A.2 The Case of Additive Uncertainty -- A.3 Time Consistency Issues of Solutions to Zero Sum Robust Control Games -- A.4 Climate Change Policy with Multiple Lifetime for Greenhouse Gases -- Appendix B Spatially Extended Deterministic Robust Control Problems -- B.1 An Example -- References -- 2 Ecology and economics in the science of anthropogenic biosphere change -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Dynamics of Coupled Hierarchical Systems -- 3 Carrying Capacity and Assimilative Capacity -- 4 Resilience and Stability
