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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...
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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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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 …
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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....
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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. …
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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
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The politics of climate change negotiations : strategies and variables in prolonged international negotiations
Downie, Christian - 2014
most powerful states in the world. This book will be invaluable to academics and students working in the fields of …
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Modelling sustainable development : transitions to a sustainable future
Gerlagh, Reyer (contributor); Schleicher, Stefan (contributor) - 2009
This insightful book explores the issue of sustainable development in its more operative and applied sense. Although a great deal of research has addressed potential interpretations and definitions of sustainable development, much of this work is too abstract to offer policy-makers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851646
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Handbook on energy and climate change
Fouquet, Roger (ed.) - 2013
'Some of us have spent our professional lives on energy and climate change but any new researcher or policy maker must find it daunting to even approach the subject. If so, this encyclopedic Handbook provides a wonderful and necessary introduction. It is creative and up to date, yet also takes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850740
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Distributional aspects of energy and climate policies
Cohen, Mark A. (ed.) - 2013
Governments around the globe have begun to implement various actions to limit carbon emissions and so, combat climate change. This book brings together some of the leading scholars in environmental and climate economics to examine the distributional consequences of policies that are designed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851354