"This book is offers a comprehensive and timely analysis of various aspects of global warming and its consequences, featuring such topics as assessment of and adaption to climate change, water and its socio-economic impact, the environmental effects of climate change on human health, and the...

It is usually believed that higher competition, implying more active firms, benefits consumers. We show that this may not be the case in an industry with asymmetric cost firms. A rise in the number of more cost-inefficient firms makes the consumers worse off in the presence of a...

This study examines carefully the distribution aspects in details, particularly the pattern of distribution of global CO<SUB align="right">2</SUB> emission. This paper investigates the share of CO<SUB align="right">2</SUB> emission for bottom 10 and top 10 percentiles, quartiles and their movements during 1960-1990.

Social capital is a broad term containing the social networks and norms that generate shared understandings, trust and reciprocity, which underpin cooperation and collective action for mutual benefits, and creates the base for economic prosperity. This study deals with the formation of social...

This paper explores the relationship between the inter-country income inequality and CO2 emission and temporal shifts in such a relationship. It also examines how the mean per capita CO2 emission and its distributional inequality are related to the corresponding mean and the distributional...