Argument in the Greenhouse: The International Economics of Controlling Global Warming

Argument in the Greenhouse: The International Economics of Controlling Global Warming

Argument in the Greenhouse: The International Economics of Controlling Global Warming

Argument in the Greenhouse: The International Economics of Controlling Global Warming

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Overview

How can greenhouse gases be controlled and reduced? Will it be in time?
This book adds a significant new contribution to the crucial climate change/global warming debate. Incorporating the key political and legal considerations into ‘real world' applied economic analysis, the authors provide a unique focus on the wider political economy of the problem.
All the key issues of controlling climate change (costs, timing and degree of stabilisation, ecological taxt reform, developing countries, and evolution of international agreements), are placed firmly within the current legal and political context, with state-of-the-art economic techniques introduced to analyse different policy proposals.
Covering both the developing and developed world, this book identifies important new policies to foster effective agreements on eissions and prevent global warming - realistic policies, likely to receive support at both international and domestic levels. be in time?
This book adds a significant new contribution to the crucial climate change/global warming debate. Incorporating the key political and legal considerations into 'real world' applied economic analysis, the book's authors provide a unique focus on the wider political economy of the problem.
All the key issues of controlling climate change (costs, timing and degree of stabilisation, ecological tax reform, developing countries and evolution of international agreements), are placed firmly within the current legal and political economy context, with state-of-the-art economic techniques introduced to analyse different policy proposals.
Covering both the developing and developed world, this book identifies important new policies to foster effective agreements on emmissions and prevent global warming - realistic policies which are likely to receive support at both international and domestic levels.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415149099
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 02/13/1997
Series: Global Environmental Change Series
Pages: 464
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nick Mabey is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Forecasting, London Business School; Stephen Hall is Professor of Economics, Imperial College; Clare Smith is a Consultant on energy and environmental issues; Sujata Gupta is a Research Fellow at the Tat Institute, India

Table of Contents

List of figures, List of tables, Acknowledgements, Part I The science and political economy of climate change, Part II Economic modelling of climate change policy, Part III The international economics of climate change, Part IV Overview, Notes, References, Index
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