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This book sets out to reframe the theory of real options so that it
can be used to support environmental investments for climate change
adaptation and mitigation. Climate change policy often involves
making decisions that concern extended time periods, and doing so
under considerable uncertainty. By expanding and broadening the
framework of real options, this book first introduces readers to
new ways of quantifying investment decisions that can much more
effectively address the shape and size of the uncertainty than
traditional approaches using Net Present Value. In turn, the second
part of the book applies this new theoretical framework to climate
change policy by presenting a number of examples, and by providing
a general perspective on investment decisions related to climate
change and how to prioritize them.
The concept of "environmental security" has emerged as one basis
for understanding international conflicts. This phrase can mean a
variety of things. It can signify security issues stemming from
environmental concerns or conflicting needs, or it can mean that
the environment is treated as a resource for the long term, and the
question is what should be done today to preserve the quality of
the environment in the future. In the same way that energy security
is about ensuring access to energy for the long run, it can also
mean that pressing environmental concerns create a situation where
different countries and communities are forced to collaboratively
design a unified response, even if cooperation is not generally in
the logic of their relations. Over the last several years, the
authors of this book and their colleagues have tried to demonstrate
the power of risk assessment and decision analysis as valuable
tools that decision makers should use for a broad range of
environmental problems, including environmental security. Risk
analysis is almost more a state of mind or a way of looking at
problems than it is a kind of algorithm or a set of recipes. It
projects a kind of rationality on problems and forces a certain
degree of quantitative rigor, as opposed to the all too common
tendency of making environmental recommendations based on anecdotal
evidence.
The concept of "environmental security" has emerged as one basis
for understanding international conflicts. This phrase can mean a
variety of things. It can signify security issues stemming from
environmental concerns or conflicting needs, or it can mean that
the environment is treated as a resource for the long term, and the
question is what should be done today to preserve the quality of
the environment in the future. In the same way that energy security
is about ensuring access to energy for the long run, it can also
mean that pressing environmental concerns create a situation where
different countries and communities are forced to collaboratively
design a unified response, even if cooperation is not generally in
the logic of their relations. Over the last several years, the
authors of this book and their colleagues have tried to demonstrate
the power of risk assessment and decision analysis as valuable
tools that decision makers should use for a broad range of
environmental problems, including environmental security. Risk
analysis is almost more a state of mind or a way of looking at
problems than it is a kind of algorithm or a set of recipes. It
projects a kind of rationality on problems and forces a certain
degree of quantitative rigor, as opposed to the all too common
tendency of making environmental recommendations based on anecdotal
evidence.
This book sets out to reframe the theory of real options so that it
can be used to support environmental investments for climate change
adaptation and mitigation. Climate change policy often involves
making decisions that concern extended time periods, and doing so
under considerable uncertainty. By expanding and broadening the
framework of real options, this book first introduces readers to
new ways of quantifying investment decisions that can much more
effectively address the shape and size of the uncertainty than
traditional approaches using Net Present Value. In turn, the second
part of the book applies this new theoretical framework to climate
change policy by presenting a number of examples, and by providing
a general perspective on investment decisions related to climate
change and how to prioritize them.
This book presents a detailed assessment of the conditions for
security relations between Washington and Moscow in the post-cold
war era, focusing on the scope for future co-operative management
of common security. Three main areas provide the context for a
thematically and theoretically varied discussion: the security and
foreign policy implications of the transition from the Soviet to a
Russian/Commonwealth regime military power and international
stability after the cold war and the political, military, and
technological requirements for a new security relationship. This
book is intended for professionals, teachers, and students
concerned with strategic studies, peace studies, and international
relations consultants, policy-makers, and journalists specializing
in these areas.
This Book Is In French. Due to the very old age and scarcity of
this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the
blurring of the original text.
This Book Is In French. Due to the very old age and scarcity of
this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the
blurring of the original text.
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