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Situating a comprehensive microbehavioral analysis of the economics
of climate change within a discussion of the most pressing global
climate change issues and policy negotiations, the Handbook of
Behavioral Economics and Climate Change is a timely collection of
new research on the behaviors of economic agents that are essential
to an exposition of climate change economics and policymaking.
Chapters identify both microbehavioral causes of and responses to
climate change by numerous economic agents, in doing so elucidating
the relationship between climate policies and behavioral changes.
This includes examination of individuals' behaviors to cope with
and adapt to climate change; the policy decisions aimed at altering
behaviurs at individual, business, and international levels to
achieve climate policy goals; and the motivations behind behaviours
driven by culture, history, or religion with regards to climate
change. These behaviors are contextualised within a global analysis
of pressing climate change issues in land-based and ocean-based
systems, including Sub-Saharan agriculture, hurricanes and
sea-level rises in North America, Latin American Pampas, the small
island alliance, South Asian rice agriculture, and hydroelectricity
in the Himalayas. With a global scope, this Handbook will prove
invaluable to students and scholars of climate change,
environmental studies, and behavioral economics. With practical
examples and case studies, it will also prove useful for
policymakers working in climate legislation.
Every society aspires to be prosperous. It also endeavors to
minimize the side effects of economic growth. This book entitled
The Economics of Optimal Growth Pathways addresses numerous
trade-offs faced by society to achieve prosperity and explores the
best possible growth pathways. The theories explored in this book
serve as a springboard to better understand key challenges and
aspects of the economy, including food security, land use, forest
and resource management, capital markets and interest rates, oil
and gas extraction, fish and marine resources, saving and
investment, and climate change. This book elucidates the concept of
optimal economic growth pathways while addressing the challenges
faced in natural resources and life on the planet. It will be
relevant to students and researchers interested in resource and
environmental economics.
This book presents a foundation for studying the micro-behavioral
economics of global warming. The author develops an empirical
model, named the Geographically-scaled Micro econometric model of
Adapting Portfolios (G-MAP) in response to climatic changes and
risks. The G-MAP model is applied to observed decisions of
agricultural and natural resource enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa
and South America. The author describes the five applications of
the model: the G-MAP animal species, the G-MAP agricultural
systems, the G-MAP natural resource enterprises, the G-MAP climate
risk, and the G-MAP public adaptations. The micro-behavioral
economics of global warming and the G-MAP models are evaluated
against the three alternative modeling traditions: The first is the
Agro-Economic Models (AEM) based on crop simulations of selected
crops under elevated CO2 conditions; The second is a family of
econometric studies of grain yield changes caused by yearly weather
fluctuations; The third is the Agro-Ecological Zone (AEZ) method
hinged crucially on the AEZ classifications of ecosystems. The
author offers a refreshing look at the traditional economics of
global warming, unraveling a broad array of adaptation strategies
adopted by managers of agricultural and natural resource
enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa and South America. The book
demonstrates that the micro-behavioral economics dynamically
integrates multiple disciplines in a cohesive way - including
economics, psychology, climate science, ecosystem studies, agronomy
and animal science - into the decision-making framework of an
individual agent. The G-MAP models provide a guide map of
adaptation strategies for the humanity's enduring journey of
battling global climatic changes in this century and beyond.
This book offers a lively account of the humanitarian, economic,
societal, and planetwide impacts of the pandemics, the COVID-19
pandemic included, which are traced back to as early as the 14th
century plague pandemic. Placing the pandemics along with other
globally shared resources, such as global warming, AI singularity,
and high-risk physics experiments, each of the nine chapters of the
book discusses the global health crises from a variety of unique
standpoints, including infectious diseases, economics, governance,
and public health. Based on the historical records of past
pandemics and the rich data from the COVID-19 pandemic, a
conceptual framework is presented for the economics of pandemics as
a globally shared experience. This book aims to critically examine
salient features in the global responses to the COVID-19 pandemic,
including global governance, lockdowns, radical movements, and mRNA
vaccines. The book will be a valuable resource to students,
researchers, and policymakers who are working in the fields of
environmental economics, global-scale public goods, and health
economics.
The Economics of Globally Shared and Public Goods responds to an
urgent need to consolidate and refine the economic theories and
explanations pertinent to globally shared resources. Making a clear
distinction between theories and empirical models, it elucidates
the problem of global public goods while incorporating insights
from behavioral economics. Its comprehensive and technical review
of existing theoretical models and their empirical results
illuminate those models in practical applications. Relevant for
economists and others working on challenges of globally shared
goods such as climate change and global catastrophes, The Economics
of Globally Shared and Public Goods provides a path toward greater
co-operation and shared successes.
This textbook provides a broad introduction to the relationship
between climate change, economics, and climate policy for young
readers and future generations. It highlights the problem of
intergenerational gaps and burden sharing on climate change. Taking
on major contentious issues of today, it is rich with behavioural
strategies and real life experiences which are explained in an
accessible and engaging way. A diverse range of topics are covered,
including farm animals of Sub-Sahara, Latin American rainforests,
Indian monsoon agriculture, tropical cyclones in Bangladesh,
sublime grasslands, energy revolutions, hydroelectric dams of
China, backstop technologies, ocean exchanges with the atmosphere,
mass extinction of species, commercial fisheries, infectious
diseases and pandemics, and a climate policy big deal. Climate
Change and Economics: Engaging with Future Generations with Action
Plans aims to engage with young readers and offer action plans for
activists. It is relevant to students interested in environmental
economics and environmental science.
The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change: Adaptation Behaviors,
Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making
shows readers how to understand mitigation strategies emerging from
global warming policy discussions and the ways that changing
climate conditions can alter these strategies. Through quantitative
analyses, case studies and policy examples, this bottom-up approach
to climate change economics gives readers the tools to create
effective responses to global warming. This self-contained book on
the topic covers key scientific and economic subjects in an
applied, innovative and immediately relevant fashion.
Microbehavioral Econometric Methods and Environmental Studies uses
microeconometric methods to model the behavior of individuals, then
demonstrates the modelling approaches in addressing policy needs.
It links theory and methods with applications, and it incorporates
data to connect individual choices and global environmental issues.
This extension of traditional environmental economics presents
modeling strategies and methodological techniques, then applies
them to hands-on examples.Throughout the book, readers can access
chapter summaries, problem sets, multiple household survey data
with regard to agricultural and natural resources in Sub-Saharan
Africa, South America, and India, and empirical results and
solutions from the SAS software.
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