Overview
- Lays a foundation for studying the micro-behavioral economics of global warming
- Offers practical climate adaptation guidelines for agricultural and natural resource practitioners, researchers and policy makers
- Provides detailed maps, figures and analyses of Sub-Saharan Africa and South America, the two regions most vulnerable to global warming
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 60)
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About this book
This book presents a foundation for studying the micro-behavioral economics of global warming. The author develops an empirical model, named the Geographically-scaled Micro econometric model of Adapting Portfolios (G-MAP) in response to climatic changes and risks. The G-MAP model is applied to observed decisions of agricultural and natural resource enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa and South America. The author describes the five applications of the model: the G-MAP animal species, the G-MAP agricultural systems, the G-MAP natural resource enterprises, the G-MAP climate risk, and the G-MAP public adaptations.
The micro-behavioral economics of global warming and the G-MAP models are evaluated against the three alternative modeling traditions: The first is the Agro-Economic Models (AEM) based on crop simulations of selected crops under elevated CO2 conditions; The second is a family of econometric studies of grain yield changes caused by yearly weather fluctuations; The third is the Agro-Ecological Zone (AEZ) method hinged crucially on the AEZ classifications of ecosystems.
The author offers a refreshing look at the traditional economics of global warming, unraveling a broad array of adaptation strategies adopted by managers of agricultural and natural resource enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa and South America. The book demonstrates that the micro-behavioral economics dynamically integrates multiple disciplines in a cohesive way - including economics, psychology, climate science, ecosystem studies, agronomy and animal science - into the decision-making framework of an individual agent. The G-MAP models provide a guide map of adaptation strategies for the humanity’s enduring journey of battling global climatic changes in this century and beyond.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Micro-Behavioral Economics of Global Warming
Book Subtitle: Modeling Adaptation Strategies in Agricultural and Natural Resource Enterprises
Authors: S. Niggol Seo
Series Title: Advances in Global Change Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15946-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-15945-4Published: 10 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38471-9Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-15946-1Published: 30 March 2015
Series ISSN: 1574-0919
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 102
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate Change, Ecosystems, Sustainable Development, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts