| schema:description 3 | "内容記述: 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; Conclusions; 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; Occlusions; 3. Impacts of global climatic change: Regional impacts of greenhouse warming; Intertemporal impacts of global warming; Conclusions; 4. Weak uncertainty: risk and imperfect information: The probability of the enhanced Greenhouse Effect; Measuring and predicting climatic change; The role of modelling; Conclusions; 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; Conclusions; 6. Calculating the cost and benefits of GHG control: The theory behind economic assessment; Studies using cost-benefit analysis; Conclusions; 7. Loading the dice? Values, opinions and ethics: Inconsistency and disputed values; Strong uncertainty revisited; Conclusions; 8. Dividing time and discounting the future: Discounting the future; Can the future be treated as less important?; Conclusions; 9. Economics, ethics and future generations: Intergenerational ethical rules; Distinguishing basic and compensatory transfer; Harm and trade-offs; Rights versus consequences; Conflicting values and moral dilemma; Conclusion; 10. Science, economics and policy: Science and political economy; Choices and decisions; Refining economic inquiry; Preferences, value and time; Concluding remarks....(more)" |
| schema:description | "公開者: London, UK & New York, NY, USA" |
| schema:description | "Source: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics (Nick Hanley, ed), 1" |