Economic Issues in Global Climate Change - 9780367011536

CRC Press

This book provides a snapshot on economic thinking about global change and provides a starting point for researchers for evaluating the economics of global change in the context of agriculture, forestry, and resource issues. It attempts to rectify the scarcity of economic analysis in global change. > This book provides a snapshot on economic thinking about global change and provides a starting point for researchers for evaluating the economics of global change in the context of agriculture, forestry, and resource issues. It attempts to rectify the scarcity of economic analysis in global change. > Preface -- Overviews -- The Science of Global Change: An Illustrated Overview -- Comprehensive and Market-Based Approaches to Global-Change Policy -- Broader Perspectives -- Sustainability and Intergenerational Environmental Rights: Implications for Benefit-Cost Analysis -- Agriculture in a Comprehensive Trace-Gas Strategy -- Climate-Change Damage and the Trace-Gas-Index Issue -- Agricg