Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change
- 1st Edition, Volume 1 - December 10, 2024
- Editors: Lint Barrage, Solomon Hsiang
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 1 3 2 4 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 1 3 2 5 - 7
The new Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change Volume 1 provides readers from a broad range of backgrounds – including students, researchers, policy-makers, and practitione… Read more
Purchase options
Institutional subscription on ScienceDirect
Request a sales quoteThe new Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change Volume 1 provides readers from a broad range of backgrounds – including students, researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners – with a central reference for core elements the economics of climate change: Integrated Climate-Economic Modeling, Empirical Approaches to Climate Change Impact Quantification, Discounting, Mitigation Costs, Adaptation, Climate Policy Options, International Cooperation, and Uncertainty. Leading scholars present timely and accessible overviews on each of these topics, providing interested readers with a broad understanding of key issues and engaged scholars with a foundation for embarking on research in this field.
- Introduces core topics in climate economics to researchers, graduate students, policy makers, and practitioners.
- Covers how climate economics questions are addressed with diverse methodological approaches including applied microeconometrics, game theory, industrial organization, and quantitative macroeconomics.
- Provides up-to-date overviews of modern climate economics research prepared by leading experts in the field.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- References
- Chapter 1: Introduction to integrated assessment modeling of climate change
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Anatomy of an IAM
- 3 The first generation of IAMs: conceptual development and results
- 4 Critiques of IAMs
- 5 Recent advances and how the field has evolved
- 6 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 2: Empirical approaches to climate change impact quantification
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Empirical estimates of the effect of climate change
- 3 Lessons learned
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3: Discounting
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Part I: Discounting under certainty
- 3 Part II: Discounting under uncertainty
- 4 Policy issues
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4: Adaptation to climate change
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Defining adaptation: two channels of adaptive decision-making
- 3 Why study adaptation? The evolution of the adaptation literature and its policy motivations
- 4 The role of public policy in shaping adaptation outcomes
- 5 Priorities for future research on adaptation
- References
- Chapter 5: On international cooperation
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction and overview
- 2 Climate policies as dynamic games
- 3 What if there is no cooperation?
- 4 Agreements as incomplete contracts
- 5 On the duration of agreements
- 6 Participation and coalition formation
- 7 Compliance with self-enforcing treaties
- 8 Narrow-but-deep vs. broad-but-shallow
- 9 From Kyoto to Paris and beyond
- References
- Chapter 6: Climate policy options
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Climate policy objectives
- 3 Command and control
- 4 Emissions taxes and subsides
- 5 Cap-and-trade programs
- 6 Prices vs quantities
- 7 Climate policy in an open economy
- 8 Renewable energy subsidies
- 9 Performance based standards
- 10 Policy interactions
- 11 Voluntary and information based approaches
- 12 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 7: Uncertainty in climate-economic modeling
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Integrated climate-economic modeling
- 3 Analytic modeling and insights
- 4 Numeric modeling and insights
- 5 Concluding summary
- Declaration of AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process
- References
- No. of pages: 1000
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 1
- Published: December 10, 2024
- Imprint: North Holland
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443313240
- eBook ISBN: 9780443313257
LB
Lint Barrage
SH
Solomon Hsiang
Solomon Hsiang is a Professor of Global Environmental Policy at Stanford University in the Doerr School of Sustainability. Hsiang directs the Global Policy Laboratory, where his team integrates economics with physical science and data science to address questions central to managing global resources. Hsiang is a Co-Director at the Climate Impact Lab, co-founder of mosaiks.org, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a National Geographic Explorer. Hsiang was Lead Author of the first Economics chapter in the Fifth National Climate Assessment (2023) and he served as the first Chief Environmental Economist at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (2023-24), where he oversaw the inaugural year of the United States’ natural capital accounting program. Hsiang earned a BS in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science and a BS in Urban Studies and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he received a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University. Hsiang was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Applied Econometrics at the (NBER) and a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at Princeton University. Previously, Hsiang was faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.