Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change

Lint Barrage, Solomon Hsiang (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

1000 Seiten

2024
North-Holland (Verlag)
978-0-443-31324-0 (ISBN)

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The new Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change Volume 1 provides readers from a broad range of backgrounds – including students, researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners – with a central reference for core elements the economics of climate change: Integrated Climate-Economic Modeling, Empirical Approaches to Climate Change Impact Quantification, Discounting, Mitigation Costs, Adaptation, Climate Policy Options, International Cooperation, and Uncertainty. Leading scholars present timely and accessible overviews on each of these topics, providing interested readers with a broad understanding of key issues and engaged scholars with a foundation for embarking on research in this field.

Lint Barrage is an Associate Professor and the Chair of Energy and Climate Economics at ETH Zurich. Her work leverages data, theory, and integrated natural systems-macroeconomic modeling approaches to quantify the impacts of environmental risks and policies on the macroeconomy. Barrage served as an author on the 5th U.S. National Climate Assessment and edits the Journal of Political Economy - Microeconomics. She is a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the CESifo Research Network. Barrage received her BA in Economics and Environmental Studies from the University of Chicago and her PhD in Economics from Yale University. In 2023, she received the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists’ Award for Researchers in Environmental Economics under the Age of Forty Solomon Hsiang is a Professor of Global Environmental Policy at Stanford University in the Doerr School of Sustainability. Hsiang directs the Global Policy Laboratory, where his team integrates economics with physical science and data science to address questions central to managing global resources. Hsiang is a Co-Director at the Climate Impact Lab, co-founder of mosaiks.org, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a National Geographic Explorer. Hsiang was Lead Author of the first Economics chapter in the Fifth National Climate Assessment (2023) and he served as the first Chief Environmental Economist at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (2023-24), where he oversaw the inaugural year of the United States’ natural capital accounting program. Hsiang earned a BS in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science and a BS in Urban Studies and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he received a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University. Hsiang was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Applied Econometrics at the (NBER) and a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at Princeton University. Previously, Hsiang was faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.

Preface
Lint Barrage and Solomon Hsiang
1. Introduction to Integrated Climate-Economic Modeling
Simon Dietz
2. Empirical Approaches to Climate Change Impact Quantification
Wolfram Schlenker
3. Discounting
Christian Gollier
4. Mitigation Costs
Mar Reguant and Mar Reguant
5. Adaptation
Tamma Carleton
6. Climate Policy Options
Matthew Kotchen
7. International Cooperation
Bård Harstad
8. Uncertainty
Christian Traeger

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2024
Reihe/Serie	Handbooks in Economics
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-443-31324-5 / 0443313245
ISBN-13	978-0-443-31324-0 / 9780443313240
Zustand	Neuware