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The economics of climate resilience and adaptation
Fankhauser, Samuel (ed.) - 2019
Gusmão, Jochen Hinkel and Richard S.J. Tol (2011), 'Sea-Level Rise and its Possible Impacts Given a "Beyond 4°C World" in the … (2013), 'International Climate Finance and Its Influence on Fairness and Policy', World Economy, 36 (4), April, 419-36. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251860
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Handbook on green growth
Fouquet, Roger (ed.) - 2019
transformation, and the new global agenda: What this means for China and the world / Ehtisham Ahmad, Isabella Neuweg and Nicholas …Economies around the world have arrived at a critical juncture: to continue to grow fuelled by fossil fuels and … green growth, and highlights key lessons from the experience of green transformations across the world following a decade of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251837
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Instruments for climate policy : limited versus unlimited flexibility
Albrecht, Johan (contributor) - 2002
Instruments for Climate Policy focuses on economic and political aspects related to the recent proposals and the debate on limits in flexibility, and discusses EU and US perspectives on climate policy instruments and strategies. This is followed by chapters on economic efficiency and the use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851952
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Sustainable development indicators in ecological economics
Lawn, Philip A. (contributor) - 2006
Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, national governments have introduced a range of policy measures designed to steer their economies along a more sustainable path. Yet how are we to know how successful these have been? This significant new book discusses the ways in which sustainable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850668
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Changing climate, changing economy
Touffut, Jean-Philippe (contributor) - 2009
How did climate change become an economic issue? Why is economic discourse so influential on the public policy of climate change? How can it best contribute to the scientific and public debates? Nine eminent scholars explain in this book both how economics has changed environmental understanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851724
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Climate Change and the World Economy
2014
) Real Options: Managing Strategic Investments in an Uncertain World, Harvard Business School Press, Boston MA -- Anda, J., A … indices of climate change exposure, adaptive capacity, sensitivity, and impacts, Background Note to World Development Report … Economics of Discounting in an Uncertain World, Princeton University Press -- Goulder, L. H. and R. C. Williams (2012) The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419770
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Building a climate resilient economy and society : challenges and opportunities
Ninan, Karachepone N. (ed.); Inoue, Makoto (ed.) - 2017
Contents: Foreword / Sir Robert T. Watson -- 1. Introduction -- K.N. Ninan and Makoto Inoue -- Part I: Vulnerability, adaptation and resilience -- 2. The environmental impact of climate change adaptation on land use and water quality / Carlo Fezzi, Amii R. Harwood, Andrew A. Lovett and Ian J....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251809
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Climate change policies : global challenges and future prospects
Cerdá Tena, Emilio (ed.); Labandeira, Xavier (ed.) - 2010
Written by leading international experts in the field, this book reveals the various economic effects from climate change policies introduced at national and international levels. They describe actual applications of climate change policies in the main emitting countries. After the Copenhagen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850695
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Climate change and sustainable development : new challenges for poverty reduction
Opschoor, Johannes Baptist (contributor);  … - 2009
This unique book provides cutting-edge knowledge and analyses of the consequences that climate change will have for sustainable development and poverty reduction within the context of global development
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850833
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Carbon sinks and climate change : forests in the fight against global warming
Hunt, Colin - 2009
"Reforestation and avoiding deforestation are methods of harnessing nature to tackle global warming - the greatest challenge facing humankind. In this book, Colin Hunt deals comprehensively with the present and future role of forests in climate change policy and practice. The author provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850957