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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... less vulnerable. The final goal of such adaptation strategies and measures is thus to improve resil- ience of societies and companies As companies form an integral part of the society and determine its capability to cope with climate ...
... less than one-sixth of the previous year's figure. The loss balance would have been higher had it not been for the fortuitous absence of severe North Atlantic hurricanes. Only three Atlantic tropical cyclones caused losses in 2006 ...
... less impact on the climate than expected , they would nevertheless help to conserve resources ( including financial resources ) and show that the industrial world was aware of its responsibility towards the Third World . To adopt such ...
... less arbitrarily chosen normative assumptions, even a very so- phisticated compilation cannot deliver value-free results. It is necessary to also advance the methodology of impact monetarization in order to avoid the situation in which ...
... less than present impacts: there occurrence is less certain. However, there is no reason why the quantity of uncertainty should be correlated directly to the time of the event. Frie- drich and Bickel also conclude that changing relative ...
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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