附註:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction: the many dimensions of the climate change issue / James M. Griffin -- The carbon cycle: human perturbations and potential management options / William H. Schlesinger -- Climate change over the next century / Gerald R. North -- Benefit-cost analysis and climate-change policy / Lawrence H. Goulder -- Assessing the market damages from climate change / Robert Mendelsohn -- The difficulties of estimating global non-market damages from climate change / Joel B. Smith, Jeffrey K. Lazo and Brian Hurd -- What are the costs of limiting CO2 concentrations? / James A. Edmonds and Ronald D. Sands -- Energy, the environment and the economy: hedging our bets / Alan S. Manne -- International agreements and the struggle to tame carbon / David G. Victor -- Five letters to the President : A letter to President George W. Bush by Lennart Hjalmarssen ; A letter to President George W. Bush by Paul Portney ; A letter to President George W. Bush by John P. Weyant ; A letter to President George W. Bush by Robert L. Bradley, Jr. ; A letter to President George W. Bush by James A. Edmonds.
摘要:Global climate change cannot be understood without knowing the fundamental principles of science, economics and politics that condition our policy choices. To that end, the contributors to this volume, experts in their respective fields, take a comprehensive look at the major issues involved. This volume is written for policymakers and informed citizenry who want to understand at a general level the complexities of global climate change without becoming enmeshed in technical minutia. The introduction emphasizes the core fact that climate change issues cut across disciplines.
