Global Climate Change

1. Front Matter

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2. Managing Planet Earth

   • William C. Clark

   Pages 1-12

3. How Should We Address the Economic Costs of Climate Change?

   • J. Christopher Bernabo

   Pages 13-13

4. Some Economics of Global Climate Change: The View from the Developing Countries

   • Nancy Birdsall, John A. Dixon

   Pages 15-32

5. Why Climate Change is Not a Cost/Benefit Problem

   • Peter G. Brown

   Pages 33-44

6. CO2 and SO2: Consistent Policy Making in a Greenhouse

   • Daniel J. Dudek, Alice M. LeBlanc, Peter Miller

   Pages 45-72

7. How Should We Address Economic Costs of Climate Change?

   • Richard Schmalensee

   Pages 73-76

8. Dealing With The Economic Costs of Climate Change Mitigation: A Perspective from the Automotive Industry

   • John W. Shiller, Paul D. McCarthy, Mark A. Shiller

   Pages 77-110

9. Weighing the Costs and Benefits of Climate Change Policies

   • Mary Beth Zimmerman

   Pages 111-129

10. Benefits of Mitigation and Adaptation

    • T. C. Schelling

    Pages 131-133

11. Methods of Analysis

    • William R. Cline

    Pages 135-146

12. Current Analysis of Economic Costs

    • Lester B. Lave

    Pages 147-152

13. The Cost of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States

    • Alex Cristofaro

    Pages 153-173

14. Saving Money and Reducing the Risk of Climate Change Through Greater Energy Efficiency

    • Howard S. Geller

    Pages 175-209

15. Global CO2 Emission Reductions: The Impacts of Rising Energy Costs

    • Alan S. Manne, Richard G. Richels

    Pages 211-239

16. Carbon Sequestration Versus Fossil Fuel Substitution: Alternative Roles for Biomass in Coping With Greenhouse Warming

    • D. O. Hall, H. E. Mynick, R. H. Williams

    Pages 241-282

17. Introduction to Respondents Panel on Current Analyses of Economic Costs

    • Rosina Bierbaum

    Pages 283-284

18. A Critical Analysis of Climate Change Policy Research

    • Dale S. Rothman, Duane Chapman

    Pages 285-302

19. Benefit-Cost Analysis

    • W. David Montgomery

    Pages 303-313

20. Economic Modeling of Global Climate: Comparing Approaches

    • John Reilly

    Pages 315-326

Bacteria in a test tube and humans on our planet follow the same population curve as time elapses. We on this earth, largely through control of disease, are rapidly ap­ proaching maximum population, and through energy demands are using up our resour­ ces and accumulating wastes. We have come to realize the danger of a maturing system but have made essential­ ly no impact in mitigating or preventing the problems we face. While we have been able to change the world we live in, most of our effects have been to degrade the planet. We have nibbled away at the quality of the atmosphere for centuries and the ac­ cumulated damage has resulted in changing the world's climate at an ever-increasing rate. We now face the possibility of higher average temperatures over most of our planet, changing patterns of rainfall, rising sea levels, aggravated storm systems and a myriad of social effects.

• Europe
• Global warming
• adaptation
• biomass
• carbon dioxide
• climate
• climate change
• climate change mitigation
• emission
• environment
• environmental policy
• industry
• ecotoxicology
• air pollution and air quality

• Cornell University, USA

  James C. White

• Center for Environmental Information, USA

  William Wagner, Carole N. Beal

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