Economics and Management of Climate Change: Risks, Mitigation and AdaptationBernd Hansjürgens, Ralf Antes Springer Science & Business Media, 2008 M07 1 - 304 pages Climate change is one of the biggest challenges for mankind. Although there is increasing evidence that climate change is already occurring, there is neither sufficient knowledge as to what extent climate change poses risks to societies and companies, nor about adequate strategies to cope with these risks. Bringing together an international group of scholars from environmental economics, political science and business, this book describes, analyses and evaluates climate change risks and responses of societies and companies. The book contributes to the question of how climate change can be mitigated by discussing efficient and effective design of mitigation measures, in particular emissions trading and clean development mechanism (CDM). Placing special emphasis on the impact of climate change risks on business, the book investigates in which way selected sectors of the economy are affected and what measures they can undertake to adapt to climate change risks. |
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... Evaluation of risk in cost-benefit analysis of climate change.....................23 Ingrid Nestle 4 A global climate change risk assessment of droughts and floods...............37 Wolfgang Knorr, Marko Scholze 5 Effects of low water ...
... ............... Stefan Pickl 145 12 Current evaluation practice of the Clean Development Mechanism ...... 157 Felicia Müller-Pelzer 13 Sustainable development, the Clean Development Mechanism, and business accounting ...
... evaluation of risk in cost - benefit analysis of climate change . In order to derive information about discounting in cost - benefit analysis , she develops an experiment on the de facto risk aversion of the sample population in the ...
... evaluation practise of CDM project activities. She comes to the conclusion that the two main CDM goals – the achievement of additional emission reductions and the contribution to sustainable development in the host country – are not ...
... evaluate the effects of the changing carbon prices on firms' decisions to invest in more energy efficiency power tech- nologies. They conclude that the more uncertain the primary energy prices and carbon trading prices are, the more the ...
Contents
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Evaluation of risk in costbenefit analysis of climate change 23 Ingrid Nestle | 37 |
Effects of low water levels on the river Rhine on the inland | 53 |
a layered management | 78 |
implications for the economic uncertainties | 97 |
how | 124 |
realizing | 145 |
Risk management in the Clean Development Mechanism CDM | 193 |
Economic and social risks associated with implementing | 208 |
Developments in corporate responses to climate change | 221 |
Modelling impacts of climate change policy uncertainty | 242 |
Reputational impact of businesses compliance strategies | 257 |
climate change risk | 271 |
Business risks and opportunities from climate change | 293 |
Sustainable development the Clean Development Mechanism | 175 |
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