The Climate casino : risk, uncertainty, and economics for a warming world /
Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns the author. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this book...
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New Haven, Conn. :
Yale University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- First encounters in the climate casino
- A tale of two lakes
- The economic origins of climate change
- Future climate change
- Tipping points in the climate casino
- From climate change to impacts
- The fate of farming
- The impact on human health
- Perils for the oceans
- Intensification of hurricanes
- Wildlife and species loss
- Adding up the damages from climate change
- Dealing with climate change: adaptation and geoengineering
- Slowing climate change by reducing emissions: mitigation
- The costs of slowing climate change
- Discounting and the value of time
- Historical perspectives on climate policy
- Climate policy by balancing costs and benefits
- The central role of carbon prices
- Climate-change policies at the national level
- From national to harmonized international policies
- Second best and beyond
- New technologies for a low-carbon economy
- Climate science and its critics
- Public opinion on climate change
- Obstacles to climate-change policies.