附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Climate change: introducing some of the issues -- Air pollution and the modern economy -- Economic understanding of pollution -- The scientific problem -- A brief historical overview of developing awareness of the enhanced Greenhouse Effect -- Values and ethical concerns -- 2. Scientific understanding of the enhanced Greenhouse Effect -- Global climatic patterns -- Sources and sinks of greenhouse gases -- Greenhouse gas emission trends -- Past and future trends in global climate -- 3. Impacts of global climate change -- Regional impacts of greenhouse warming -- Intertemporal impacts of global warming -- 4. Weak uncertainty: risk and imperfect information -- The probability of the enhanced Greenhouse Effect -- Measuring and predicting climatic change -- The role of modelling -- 5. Strong uncertainty: ignorance and indeterminacy -- Characterising future events -- Economic use of weak uncertainty -- How weak is weak uncertainty? -- From weak to strong uncertainty -- The changing perception of science -- 6. Calculating the cost and benefits of GHG control -- The theory behind economic assessment -- Studies using cost-benefit analysis -- 7. Loading the dice? Values, opinions and ethics -- Inconsistency and disputed values -- Strong uncertainty revisited -- 8. Dividing time and discounting the future -- Discounting the future -- Can the future be treated as less important? -- 9. Economics, ethics and future generations -- Intergenerational ethical rules -- Distinguishing basic and compensatory transfers -- Harm and trade-offs -- Rights versus consequences -- Conflicting values and moral dilemmas -- 10. Science, economics and policy -- Science and political economy -- Choices and decisions -- Redefining economic inquiry -- Performances, value and time.
