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Willi Semmler - The Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Global Warming - 9780199856978 - V9780199856978
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The Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Global Warming

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Description for The Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Global Warming Hardback. The Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Global Warming analyzes the macroeconomics of global warming, especially the economics of possible preventative measures, various policy changes, and potential effects of climate change on developing and developed nations. Editor(s): Bernard, Lucas. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: KCB; KCN; RNPG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 181 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1360.
The first World Climate Conference, which was sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization in Genève in 1979, triggered an international dialogue on global warming. From the 1997 United Nations-sponsored conference-during which the Kyoto Protocol was signed-through meetings in Copenhagen, Cancún, Durban, and most recently Doha (2012) and Warsaw (2013), worldwide attention to the issue of global warming and its impact on the world's economy has rapidly increased in intensity. The consensus of these debates and discussions, however, is less than clear. Optimistically, many geoscience researchers and members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have supported CO2 emission reduction pledges while maintaining that a 2°C limit in increased temperature by the year 2100 is achievable through international coordination. Other observers postulate that established CO2 reduction commitments such as those agreed to at the Copenhagen United Nations Climate Change Conference (2009) are insufficient and cannot hold the global warming increase below 2°C. As experts theorize on precisely what impact global warming will have, developing nations have become particularly alarmed. The developed world will use energy to mitigate global warming effects, but developing countries are more exposed by geography and poverty to the most dangerous consequences of a global temperature rise and lack the economic means to adapt. The complex dynamics that result from this confluence of science and geopolitics gives rise to even more complicated issues for economists, financial planners, business leaders, and policy-makers. The Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Global Warming analyzes the economic impact of issues related to and resulting from global warming, specifically the implications of possible preventative measures, various policy changes, and adaptation efforts as well as the different consequences climate change will have on both developing and developed nations. This multi-disciplinary approach, which touches on issues of growth, employment, and development, elucidates for readers state-of-the-art research on the complex and far-reaching problem of global warming.

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Oxford Handbooks
Condition
New
Weight
1367g
Number of Pages
716
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199856978
SKU
V9780199856978
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About Willi Semmler
Lucas Bernard is Professor of Business at The City University of New York, College of Technology. Willi Semmler is Henry Arnhold Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research.

Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Global Warming
Many of the chapters are thought provoking; hence readers will enjoy the excellent discussions they provide on topics as diverse as spatial energy balance climate models and the nexuses between the Kyoto Protocol and carbon leakage into China.
A. A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology, CHOICE
Governments can and must regulate cooperatively. Private industry can and must address the causal factors, and the solutions to mitigate, global warming. In this seminal work, Bernard and Semmler give us an insightful and comprehensive framework to find the social, scientific, and economic initiatives critical to solving humankind's greatest challenge.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Executive Chairman, Global Thermostat
Global warming now has a book all its own... The Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Global Warming will at least give people pause for thought.
Tech Times

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