Game Theory and Climate Change (eBook)

Parkash Chander (Autor)

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2018
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54559-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Parkash Chander argues that we can make progress on the climate-change impasse through incorporating the insights of game theory. Chander offers economic and game-theoretic interpretations of both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement and discusses the policy recommendations his framework generates.

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Despite the growing consensus on the need for action to counteract climate change, complex economic and political forces have so far prevented international actors from making much headway toward resolving the problem. Most approaches to climate change are based in economics and environmental science; in this book, Parkash Chander argues that we can make further progress on the climate change impasse by considering a third approach-game theory.Chander shows that a game-theoretic approach, which offers insight into the nature of interactions between sovereign countries behaving strategically and the kinds of outcomes such interactions produce, can illuminate how best to achieve international agreements in support of climate-change mitigation strategies. Game Theory and Climate Change develops a conceptual framework with which to analyze climate change as a strategic or dynamic game, bringing together cooperative and noncooperative game theory and providing practical analyses of international negotiations. Chander offers economic and game-theoretic interpretations of both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement and argues that the Paris Agreement may succeed where the Kyoto Protocol failed. Finally, Chander discusses the policy recommendations his framework generates, including a global agreement to support development of cleaner technologies on a global scale.

Autor

Parkash Chander is professor of economics and executive director of the Center for Environmental Economics and Climate Change at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, O. P. Jindal Global University. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and was formerly head of the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, and of the Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore.

Inhalt

Preface1. Purpose and Scope2. The Basic Framework3. Rationale for Cooperation4. The Core of a Strategic Game5. Environmental Games6. Coalition Formation Games7. Dynamic Environmental Games8. Limits to Climate Change9. The Journey from Kyoto to Paris10. International Trade and Climate ChangeConclusionReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.4.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 19 b&w illustrations
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54559-2 / 0231545592
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54559-4 / 9780231545594