314 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Climate Change: Introducing some of the issues 2. Scientific Understanding of the Enhanced Greenhouse Effect 3. Impacts of Global Climate Change 4. Weak Uncertainty: Risk and imperfect information 5. Strong Uncertainty: Ignorance and indeterminacy 6. Calculating the Cost and Benefits of GHG Control 7. Loading the Dice? Values, opinions and ethics 8. Dividing Time and Discounting the Future 9. Economics, Ethics and Future Generations 10. Science, Economics and Policy
Biography
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.
