The Economics Of Climate Resilience And Adaptation
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Author |
: Sam Frankhauser |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 912 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1788971531 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781788971539 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Economics of Climate Resilience and Adaptation by : Sam Frankhauser
"Managing climate change requires action on both its causes (reducing emissions) and its consequences (adapting to impacts that can no longer be avoided). Human societies can thrive in many climatic conditions. However, such adaptation is not necessarily smooth, and it cannot be taken for granted. This book synthesises the contribution of economics to the study and practice of climate resilience and adaptation. Including an original introduction by the editor, it brings together in one volume some of the most influential articles by economists on climate change adaptation since the topic became a subject of academic interest"--
Author |
: Samuel Fankhauser |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1785360302 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781785360305 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Economics of Climate-resilient Development by : Samuel Fankhauser
Some climate change is now inevitable and strategies to adapt to these changes are quickly developing. The question is particularly paramount for low-income countries, which are likely to be most affected. This timely and unique book takes an integrated look at the twin challenges of climate change and development. The book treats adaptation to climate change as an issue of climate-resilient development, rather than as a bespoke set of activities (flood defences, drought plans, and so on), combining climate and development challenges into a single strategy. It asks how the standard approaches to development need to change, and what socio-economic trends and urbanisation mean for the vulnerability of developing countries to climate risks. Combining conceptual thinking with practical policy prescriptions and experience the contributors argue that, to address these questions, climate risk has to be embedded fully into wider development strategies
Author |
: Anil Markandya |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 565 |
Release |
: 2014-01-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136212116 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136212116 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change Adaptation by : Anil Markandya
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty regarding future impacts, which affect all regions and many ecosystems. Many publications deal with economic issues relating to mitigation policies, but the economics of adaptation to climate change has received comparatively little attention. However, this area is is critical and a central pillar of any adaptation strategy or plan and is the economic dimension, which therefore merits the increase in attention it is receiving. This book deals with the difficulties that face the economics of adaptation. Critical issues include: uncertainty; baselines; reversibility, flexibility and adaptive management; distributional impacts; discount rates and time horizons; mixing monetary and non-monetary evaluations and limits to the use of cost-benefit analysis; economy-wide impacts and cross-sectoral linkages. All of these are addressed in the book from the perspective of economics of adaptation. Other dimensions of adaptation are also included, such as the role of low- and middle-income countries, technology and the impacts of extreme events. This timely book will prove essential reading for international researchers and policy makers in the fields of natural resources, environmental economics and climate change.
Author |
: S. Niggol Seo |
Publisher |
: Academic Press |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2017-09-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780128118757 |
ISBN-13 |
: 012811875X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change by : S. Niggol Seo
The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change: Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making shows readers how to understand mitigation strategies emerging from global warming policy discussions and the ways that changing climate conditions can alter these strategies. Through quantitative analyses, case studies and policy examples, this bottom-up approach to climate change economics gives readers the tools to create effective responses to global warming. This self-contained book on the topic covers key scientific and economic subjects in an applied, innovative and immediately relevant fashion. - Unravels individual behaviors and national policies about global warming by evaluating their evolving motives and incentives - Provides an economic analysis of the ways individuals makes decisions when faced with climate change - Details a full range of alternative economic and policy responses, placing them in an integrated conceptual and policy framework
Author |
: Lisa Dale |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2022-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231552974 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231552971 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Climate Change Adaptation by : Lisa Dale
Climate change policy has typically emphasized mitigation, calling for reducing emissions and shifting away from fossil fuels. Yet while these efforts have floundered, floods, wildfires, droughts, and other disasters are becoming more frequent and potent. As the risks escalate, we must ask how to adapt to a changing climate. How might farmers modify their practices to maximize food security? Can coastal cities protect their infrastructure from rising seas? Are there strategic ways for developing countries to combine climate resilience with economic growth and poverty reduction? For people and societies around the world, these questions are not theoretical: adaptation is already underway. This book offers a concise overview of climate adaptation governance. In clear, accessible language, Lisa Dale describes key strategies that governments, communities, and the private sector are now deploying. She presents the theory and practice that underlie climate adaptation efforts at local and global scales, providing illuminating case studies that foreground the problems facing developing countries. Dale analyzes the effectiveness of a range of policy interventions, drawing out principles of good governance and discussing how practitioners can navigate complex tradeoffs. She emphasizes equity and inclusion, considering how climate adaptation policy can account for the needs of historically disadvantaged groups. Written for a wide audience, this book is an invaluable introduction for all readers interested in how societies can meet the challenges of an altered climate.
Author |
: Emilio Bastidas-Arteaga |
Publisher |
: Butterworth-Heinemann |
Total Pages |
: 390 |
Release |
: 2019-03-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780128168400 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0128168404 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Climate Adaptation Engineering by : Emilio Bastidas-Arteaga
Climate Adaptation Engineering defines the measures taken to reduce vulnerability and increase the resiliency of built infrastructure. This includes enhancement of design standards, structural strengthening, utilisation of new materials, and changes to inspection and maintenance regimes, etc. The book examines the known effects and relationships of climate change variables on infrastructure and risk-management policies. Rich with case studies, this resource will enable engineers to develop a long-term, self-sustained assessment capacity and more effective risk-management strategies. The book's authors also take a long-term view, dealing with several aspects of climate change. The text has been written in a style accessible to technical and non-technical readers with a focus on practical decision outcomes. - Provides climate scenarios and their likelihoods, hazard modelling (wind, flood, heatwaves, etc.), infrastructure vulnerability, resilience or exposure (likelihood and extent of damage) - Introduces the key concepts needed to assess the risks, costs and benefits of future proofing infrastructures in a changing climate - Includes case studies authored by experts from around the world
Author |
: Benjamin K. Sovacool |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 2016-04-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137496737 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137496738 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Political Economy of Climate Change Adaptation by : Benjamin K. Sovacool
Drawing on concepts in political economy, political ecology, justice theory, and critical development studies, the authors offer the first comprehensive, systematic exploration of the ways in which adaptation projects can produce unintended, undesirable results. This work is on the Global Policy: Next Generation list of six key books for understanding the politics of global climate change.
Author |
: Matthew Kahn |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2021-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300258578 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300258577 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Adapting to Climate Change by : Matthew Kahn
A revelatory study of how climate change will affect individual economic decisions, and the broad impact of those choicesSelected by Publishers Weekly as one of its Top Ten books in Business and Economics for Spring 2021 It is all but certain that the next century will be hotter than any we’ve experienced before. Even if we get serious about fighting climate change, it’s clear that we will need to adapt to the changes already underway in our environment. This book considers how individual economic choices in response to climate change will transform the larger economy. Using the tools of microeconomics, Matthew E. Kahn explores how decisions about where we live, how our food is grown, and where new business ventures choose to locate are impacted by climate change. Kahn suggests new ways that big data can be deployed to ease energy or water shortages to aid agricultural operations and proposes informed policy changes related to public infrastructure, disaster relief, and real estate to nudge land use, transportation options, and business development in the right direction.
Author |
: Trevor Houser |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 381 |
Release |
: 2015-08-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231539555 |
ISBN-13 |
: 023153955X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Economic Risks of Climate Change by : Trevor Houser
Climate change threatens the economy of the United States in myriad ways, including increased flooding and storm damage, altered crop yields, lost labor productivity, higher crime, reshaped public-health patterns, and strained energy systems, among many other effects. Combining the latest climate models, state-of-the-art econometric research on human responses to climate, and cutting-edge private-sector risk-assessment tools, Economic Risks of Climate Change: An American Prospectus crafts a game-changing profile of the economic risks of climate change in the United States. This prospectus is based on a critically acclaimed independent assessment of the economic risks posed by climate change commissioned by the Risky Business Project. With new contributions from Karen Fisher-Vanden, Michael Greenstone, Geoffrey Heal, Michael Oppenheimer, and Nicholas Stern and Bob Ward, as well as a foreword from Risky Business cochairs Michael Bloomberg, Henry Paulson, and Thomas Steyer, the book speaks to scientists, researchers, scholars, activists, and policy makers. It depicts the distribution of escalating climate-change risk across the country and assesses its effects on aspects of the economy as varied as hurricane damages and violent crime. Beautifully illustrated and accessibly written, this book is an essential tool for helping businesses and governments prepare for the future.
Author |
: Robert O. Mendelsohn |
Publisher |
: Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 255 |
Release |
: 2009-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781849802239 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1849802238 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Climate Change and Agriculture by : Robert O. Mendelsohn
The specific focus of this seminal work is on the economic impact of climate change on agriculture world wide, and how faced with the resultant environmental alterations, agriculture might adapt under varied and varying conditions. Enhanced with a detailed and comprehensive index, Climate Change and Agriculture is highly recommended for academic library environmental studies and economic studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists. The Midwest Book Review Despite its great importance, there are surprisingly few economic studies of the impact of climate on agriculture and how agriculture can adapt under a variety of conditions. This book examines 22 countries across four continents, including both developed and developing economies. It provides both a good analytical basis for additional work and solid results for policy debate concerning income distributional effects such as abatement, adaptation, and equity. Agriculture and grazing are a central sector in the livelihood of many people, particularly in developing countries. This book uses the Ricardian method to examine the impact of climate change on agriculture. It also quantifies how farmers adapt to climate. The findings suggest that agriculture in developing countries is more sensitive to climate than agriculture in developed countries. Rain-fed cropland is generally more sensitive to warming than irrigated cropland and cropland is more sensitive than livestock. The adaptation to climate change results reveal that farmers make many adjustments including switching crops and livestock species, adopting irrigation, and moving between livestock and crops. The results also reveal that impacts and adaptations vary a great deal across landscapes, suggesting that adaptation policies must be location specific. Finally, the book suggests a research agenda for the future. Economists in academia and the public sector, policy analysts and development agencies will find this broad study illuminating.