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Economics and Management of Climate Change

Risks, Mitigation and Adaptation

  • Investigates the effects of climate change on companies in different sectors

  • Contributors from different countries and various disciplines ensure broad perspective

  • Integrates the perspectives of economics and business administration

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
  2. Introduction: Climate change risks, mitigation and adaptation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction: Climate change risks, mitigation and adaptation

      • Bernd Hansjürgens, Ralf Antes
      Pages 1-9
  3. Climate change risks and risk assessment Climate change risks and risk assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. A global climate change risk assessment of droughts and floods

      • Wolfgang Knorr, Marko Scholze
      Pages 37-52
    3. Effects of low water levels on the river Rhine on the inland waterway transport sector

      • Olaf Jonkeren, Jos van Ommeren, Piet Rietveld
      Pages 53-64
    4. Spillover impacts of climate policy on energyintensive industry

      • Vlasis Oikonomou, Martin Patel, Ernst Worrell
      Pages 65-77
  4. Adaptation: corporate responses to climate change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219

About this book

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges for mankind. Although there is increasing evidence that climate change is already occurring, there is neither sufficient knowledge as to what extent climate change poses risks to societies and companies, nor about adequate strategies to cope with these risks.

Bringing together an international group of scholars from environmental economics, political science and business, this book describes, analyses and evaluates climate change risks and responses of societies and companies. The book contributes to the question of how climate change can be mitigated by discussing efficient and effective design of mitigation measures, in particular emissions trading and clean development mechanism (CDM). Placing special emphasis on the impact of climate change risks on business, the book investigates in which way selected sectors of the economy are affected and what measures they can undertake to adapt to climate change risks.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Bernd Hansjürgens

  • Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany

    Ralf Antes

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Economics and Management of Climate Change

  • Book Subtitle: Risks, Mitigation and Adaptation

  • Editors: Bernd Hansjürgens, Ralf Antes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77353-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-77352-0Published: 31 July 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2650-0Published: 29 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-77353-7Published: 01 July 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 304

  • Topics: Environmental Economics, Climate Change Management and Policy

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