Argument in the Greenhouse: The International Economics of Controlling Global Warming

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Psychology Press, 1997 - 442 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.

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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
REFERENCES
422

OPTIMAL CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY Theory and practical relevance
185
INDEX
433

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Nick Mabeyis a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Forecasting, London Business School; Stephen Hallis Professor of Economics, Imperial College; Clare Smithis a Consultant on energy and environmental issues; Sujata Guptais a Research Fellow at the Tat Institute, India

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