Economics and management of climate change : risks, mitigation and adaptation
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Bernd Hansjürgens; Ralf Antes
- ناشر : New York ; London : Springer,
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2008
- شابک / ISBN : 9780387773537
Description
Introduction: Climate change risks, mitigation and adaptation; Rising natural catastrophe losses -- what is the role of climate change?; Evaluation of risk in cost-benefit analysis of climate change; A global climate change risk assessment of droughts and floods; Effects of low water levels on the river Rhine on the inland waterway transport sector; Spillover impacts of climate policy on energyintensive industry; Risks, vulnerability, and participation: a layered management approach; Intensity targets: implications for the economic uncertainties of emissions trading. Three types of impact from the European Emission Trading Scheme: direct cost, indirect cost and uncertaintyParticipants' treatment of allowance price uncertainty: how are risk-aversion and real option values related to each other?; Climate change, sustainable development and risk: realizing a financial fund within the TEM model as an economic and business opportunity; Current evaluation practice of the Clean Development Mechanism; S.
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 miti.
