Long-term Economics of Climate Change: Beyond a Doubling of Greenhouse Gas Concentrations

by R.B. Howarth

This volume will include scenarios of geophysical and economic impacts from global warming beyond a doubling of greenhouse gases. Analyses will examine geophysical, ecological, and economic impacts, physical and institutional lags, alternative scenarios with and without policy intervention, institutional change, political-economic barriers to effective policy, and prescriptions for change. Perspectives will include those from physical and biological sciences, as well as economics.

348 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001