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Argument in the Greenhouse: The International Economics of Controlling Global Warming (Global Environmental Change)
 
 
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Argument in the Greenhouse: The International Economics of Controlling Global Warming (Global Environmental Change) [Paperback]

Sujata Gupta (Author), Stephen Hall (Author), Nick Mabey (Author), Clare Smith (Author)

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March 15, 1997 0415149096 978-0415149099 1
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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This book makes a number of valuabel contributions to efforts to understand and appropriately control anthropogenic climate change. It provides an excellent introduction...offers an insightful analysis... Environment..
...has one of the best short descriptions of what the global warming/climate change problem is all about... well worth studying for a better understanding of the computer modeling process, as well as the political and economic issues involved.
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... a substantial work that makes a number of contributions to the effort to understand and appropriately control anthropogenic climate change.
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... the authors provide a unique focus on the wider political economy of the problem. All of the key issues of controlling the climate change are placed firmly within the current legal and political economy context, with state-of-the-art economic techniques introduced to analyze different policy proposals.
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About the Author

Nick Mabey is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Forecasting, London Business School; Stephen Hall is Professor of Economics, Imperial College; Clare Smith is a Consultant on energy and environmental issues; Sujata Gupta is a Research Fellow at the Tat Institute, India

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In the last decade there has been growing concern that major changes in the global climate will be caused by a build-up of heat-trapping pollutants in the atmosphere. Read the first page
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income tax recycling, technological response coefficient, future damage costs, trade leakage, endogenous technical progress model, endogenous technical change model, abatement dynamics, energy intense industries, abating technologies, partial optimisation, current abatement, high damage case, high damage costs, marginal damage costs, energy demand equations, unilateral abatement, recycling carbon taxes, abatement commitments, using tradable permits, carbon leakage, collaborative effectiveness, hard uncertainty, climate change damage, energy demand model, damage cost estimates
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North America, European Union, Environmental Trade-Off, Montreal Protocol, Nash Bargain, South-East Asia, Soviet Union, Technological Utopia, World Bank, Latin America
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