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World economic activity is a cause of climate change and climate
change has an impact on economic activity. Adaptation to climate
change can occur locally, but action to reduce the extent of
climate change requires global cooperation or at least
coordination.Covering all aspects of the problem, this collection
contains both classic and recent key published articles on this
burning issue. The first section explores global trends in
emissions and their drivers as well as the most important forecasts
of global greenhouse gas emissions. The second section covers
mitigation policy at the international level reviewing costs,
benefits, and analysis of policy instruments. The final section
focuses on adaptation and the roles of risk and uncertainty in
responses to climate change. The extensive, authoritative
introduction provided by the editors puts these contributions into
context. This volume will be of interest and value to researchers
and policy professionals in the areas of climate policy and
environmental economics
Drawing on the biophysical sciences, public policy, geography,
economics, exploratory research and the behavioural sciences, this
book offers reviews and prescriptions for the future of ecological
economics, placing particular emphasis on complex sustainability
problems. The book is divided into three broad parts: challenges
and reviews, reorientations and openings, and frameworks and
applications. To begin, the authors illustrate the limitations of
ecological economics by highlighting the lack of theory and method,
the need for greater interdisciplinary co-operation and the
domination by economists from developed nations. They move on to
present strategies to address these shortcomings by focusing on
interdisciplinary methods and their theoretical basis, discussing
the future prospects for ecological economics, and addressing a
host of ecological economic issues from a variety of natural and
social science perspectives. They aim to challenge the notion of
ecological economics by addressing 'what it is', and asking 'what
it could be'. The book expands current thinking on ecological
economics by exploring existing avenues for integrative and
interdisciplinary research and discovering new overlaps with a
range of other disciplines. It will appeal to ecological and
environmental economists, and academics and researchers of the
social sciences, particularly environmental science and geography.
This book discusses important recent developments in the theory,
concepts and empirical applications of ecological economics and
sustainable development. The editors have assembled a fascinating
collection of papers from some of the leading scholars in the field
of ecological economics. Topics covered include: * the contribution
of classical economics to ecological economics * alternatives to
the growth paradigm and Gross Domestic Product * valuation in
ecological economics and indicators of natural resource scarcity *
case studies of sustainable development * critical reviews of the
environmental Kuznets curve * green national accounting. This will
be an invaluable text for scholars, policy analysts and students
interested in sustainable development and ecological, environmental
and resource economics.
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