Greenhouse Economics: Value and EthicsRoutledge, 2020 M10 28 - 316 pages Examining one of the most crucial issues in the modern world: human induced climate change, here Clive Spash provides a refreshing interdisciplinary perspective, pulling together strands of natural science, economics and ethics. Described by John Gowdy as ‘the best exposition to date on the political economy of climate policy’, this remarkable volume poses serious questions and gives intelligent answers. The issues it addresses are relevant to a range of environmental problems, and it covers themes such as:
By rigorously examining international and governmental sources, and key contemporary issues, Spash provides an up-to-date and informative analysis. A well-organized study (including a glossary and helpful acronym list), this book will be of strong interest to students and academics in the fields of ecological and environmental economics, and is essential reading for all those to whom climate change is a professional or personal concern. |
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... cent reductions . The absence of such statements from the IPCC SAR is due to its explicit politicisation and inclusion as a pre - negotiating document within a political process . In the first assessment a clear statement appeared on ...
... cent reductions from then current levels at the time as a starting point . By 1990 several nations were proposing unilateral reductions in CO , emissions and all European Community ( EC ) countries , except the UK , agreed on ...
... cent from 1988 levels by 2005 Held in Hamburg ; call for 30 per cent reduction by 2000 and 50 per cent by 2015 ; some dissenters Resources Committee Toronto Conference on the 1988 Changing Atmosphere : Implications for Global Security ...
... cent by 2005 for industrialised economies . The last phase in the development of international events surrounding the enhanced Greenhouse Effect was to establish an international treaty , the UNFCCC ( adopted May 1992 , came into force ...
... cent emissions reduction needed to stabilise atmospheric CO , 1990 Established at Second World Climate Conference 1990 Established the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Framework Convention on Climate Change 1992 1992 25,000 ...
Contents
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2 Scientific understanding of the enhanced Greenhouse Effect | 25 |
3 Impacts of global climate change | 60 |
risk and imperfect information | 97 |
ignorance and indeterminacy | 120 |
6 Calculating the cost and benefits of GHG control | 153 |
7 Loading the dice? Values opinions and ethics | 184 |
8 Dividing time and discounting the future | 201 |
9 Economics ethics and future generations | 221 |
10 Science economics and policy | 251 |
Glossary | 283 |
Index | 286 |