Argument in the Greenhouse: The International Economics of Controlling Global WarmingRoutledge, 2005 M10 5 - 464 pages 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. |
Contents
AN INTRODUCTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE | 3 |
INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE PREVENTION | 19 |
ECONOMIC MODELLING OF CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY | 45 |
A REVIEW OF MODELLING ISSUES AND PAST WORK | 47 |
EMPIRICAL MODELLING OF ENERGY DEMAND RESPONSES | 86 |
MODELLING THE MACROECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CARBON ABATEMENT | 109 |
CARBON ABATEMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES A case study of India | 151 |
THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE | 183 |
QUANTITATIVE MODELLING OF OPTIMAL INTERNATIONAL ABATEMENT POLICIES | 235 |
CARBON ABATEMENT IN INCOMPLETE INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS | 266 |
THE DOMESTIC POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CARBON TAXES | 303 |
OECD COOPERATION UNDER THE FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE | 328 |
OVERVIEW | 373 |
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS | 375 |
NOTES | 415 |
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