Greenhouse Economics

Value and ethics

Clive L. Spash

298 pages, parution le 28/09/2005

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Résumé

Examining one of the most crucial issues in the modern world: human induced climate change, here Clive Spash provides a refreshing interdisciplinary perspective, pulling together strands of natural science, economics and ethics. Described by John Gowdy as the best exposition to date on the political economy of climate policy, this remarkable volume poses serious questions and gives intelligent answers. The issues it addresses are relevant to a range of environmental problems, and it covers themes such as:

How do we deal with uncertainty and ignorance?
What roles do science and economics play in policy formation?
To what extent should individuals take responsibility for the society in which they and their descendants live?

By rigorously examining international and governmental sources, and key contemporary issues, Spash provides an up-to-date and informative analysis. A well-organized study (including a glossary and helpful acronym list), this book will be of strong interest to students and academics in the fields of ecological and environmental economics, and is essential reading for all those to whom climate change is a professional or personal concern.

L'auteur - Clive L. Spash

Professor Clive Spash is the Head of the Socio-Economic Research Programme at the Macaulay Institute and also holds the Research Chair in Environmental and Rural Economics at the University of Aberdeen. He is President of the European Society for Ecological Economics.

Sommaire

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Climate Change: introducing some of the issues
Scientific Understanding of the Enhanced Greenhouse Effect
Impacts of Global Climate Change
Weak uncertainty: risk and imperfect information
Strong uncertainty: ignorance and indeterminacy
Calculating the cost and benefits of GHG control
Loading the dice? Values, opinions and ethics
Dividing time and discounting the future
Economics, ethics and future generations
Science, economics and policy
Glossary
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Routledge
Auteur(s)	Clive L. Spash
Parution	28/09/2005
Nb. de pages	298
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	491g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780415372442
ISBN13	978-0-415-37244-2