Climate Economics: The State of the Art

by Frank Ackerman, Elizabeth A. Stanton, Elizabeth Stanton

Book Overview

This book reviews the state of the art in climate economics, and in the science on which it rests. It covers the estimation of climate damages, an area where economic models lag far behind current empirical research. Recent work on uncertainty and catastrophic risk has challenged past approaches to climate policy, offering new decision rules for extreme uncertainty, and alternative weightings of worst-case scenarios. Longstanding debates on discount...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041563718X
• ISBN13: 9780415637183
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"