Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication Year:
2007
Publication Place
Cambridge, UK ; New York
Physical Description:
xix, 692 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
363.73874 STE
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
37775
Legacy PEIN ID:
77785
General Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.|2 Copies
Subject Heading(s)
Environmental policy --Great Britain. Climatic changes --Economic aspects. Climatic changes --Government policy --Great Britain.
Abstract
Climate change-- our approach: The science of climate change : scale of the environment challenge ; Economics, ethics and climate change ; Ethical frameworks and intertemporal equity -- Impacts of climate change on growth and development: How climate change will affect people around the world ; Implications of climate change for development ; Costs of climate change in developed countries ; Economic modelling of climate-change impacts -- The economics of stabilisation: Projecting the growth of greenhouse-gas emissions ; Climate change and the Kuznets curve ; The challenge of stabilisation ; Identifying the costs of mitigation ; Macroeconomic models of costs ; Structural change and competitiveness ; Key statistics for 123 UK production sectors ; Opportunities and wider benefits from climate policies ; Towards a goal for climate-change policy -- Policy responses for mitigation: Harnessing markets for mitigation : the role of taxation and trading ; Carbon pricing and emission markets in practice ; Accelerating technological innovation ; Beyond carbon markets and technology -- Policy responses for adaptation: Understanding the economics of adaptation ; Adaptation in the developed world ; Adaptation in the developing world -- International collective action: Framework for understanding international collective action for climate change -- Creating a global price for carbon -- Supporting the transition to a low-carbon global economy -- Promoting effective international technology co-operation -- Reversing emissions from land use change -- International support for adaptation -- Conclusions : building and sustaining international co-operation on climate change.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication Year:
2007
Publication Place
Cambridge, UK ; New York
Physical Description:
xix, 692 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
363.73874 STE
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
37775
Legacy PEIN ID:
77785
General Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.|2 Copies
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Record Modified: 20-Sep-2022