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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Cline, William R. Economics of global warming. Washington, DC : Institute for International Economics, 1992 (OCoLC)647547653 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
William R Cline |
| ISBN: | 0881321508 9780881321500 088132132X 9780881321326 |
| OCLC Number: | 25787658 |
| Notes: | "June 1992." |
| Description: | xi, 399 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | The Scientific Framework and Very-Long-Term Warming -- Economic Damage -- Abatement Costs -- Time Discounting -- Benefit-Cost Synthesis -- Policy Implications -- The Scientific Basis for the Greenhouse Effect -- Science and the Emergence of the Policy Issue -- The Greenhouse Effect -- The Carbon Cycle -- Other Trace Gases -- General Circulation Models -- Radiative Forcing and Global Warming -- Feedback Estimates -- Aerosols and Masking by Urban Pollution -- The Empirical Evidence -- The Ecological and Economic Impact -- Critiques and Response -- Very-Long-Term Warming -- Catastrophe Scenarios -- Unavoidable Warming -- Geoengineering -- Scientific Research Agenda -- Global Warming in the Very Long Term -- Fossil Fuel Supply -- Establishing the Appropriate Time Horizon -- Carbon Emissions and Atmospheric Concentration -- Very-Long-Term Warming -- The Influence of CFCs -- Illustrative Regional Extent of Very-Long-Term Warming -- Nonlinear Impact -- Avoiding Long-Term Warming -- The Pace of Warming and the Price of Delaying Action -- Caveat Lector -- The Economic Benefits of Limiting Global Warming -- Analytical Framework -- Inherent Damage Limits? -- Agriculture -- Forests -- Species Loss -- Sea-Level Rise -- Space Cooling and Heating -- Human Amenity -- Life and Morbidity -- Migration -- Hurricane Damage -- The Construction Sector -- Leisure Activities -- Water Supply -- Urban Infrastructure -- Pollution -- The Welfare Effects of Agricultural Yield Reductions Resulting from Global Warming. |
| Responsibility: | William R. Cline. |
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