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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... ...............23 Ingrid Nestle 4 A global climate change risk assessment of droughts and floods...............37 Wolfgang Knorr, Marko Scholze 5 Effects of low water levels on the river Rhine on the inland waterway transport sector ...
... global average air and ocean temperature, wide- spread melting of snow and ice, and rising average sea level. - Many natural systems are being affected by regional climate changes, par- ticularly by temperature increases. - Atmospheric ...
... global warming. However, research on climate change had for a long time a one-sided focus on mitigation measures. It was (and in many cases still is) the reduction of green- house gases which was in the centre of climate change ...
... global GHG emissions will continue to grow over the next few decades.” In the meantime, societies have no choice other than to adapt to the impacts of climate change. - Societies' vulnerability. The vulnerability of many societies has ...
... global warming . ( 3 ) Ingrid Nestle explores the 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 ...
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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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