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The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change

Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making

Book2017

Authors:

S. Niggol Seo

The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change

Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making

Book2017

 

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Authors:

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    1 - An Introduction to the Behavioral Economics of Climate Change for Provision of Global Public Goods

    Pages 1-32

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    2 - The Theory of Public Goods and Their Efficient Provisions

    Pages 33-64

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    3 - Designing Global Warming Policies and Major Challenges

    Pages 65-99

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    4 - A Globally Optimal Carbon Price Policy From Noncooperative Behavioral Standpoints

    Pages 101-137

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    5 - Breakthrough Technologies: Technological Innovations as an Alternative Global Warming Solution

    Pages 139-183

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    6 - Adaptation Paradigm as an Alternative Global Warming Policy

    Pages 185-222

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    7 - Negotiating a Global Public Good: Lessons From Global Warming Conferences and Future Directions

    Pages 223-256

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    Index

    Pages 257-266

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The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change: Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making shows readers how to understand mitigation strategies emerging from global warming policy discussions and the ways that changing climate conditions can alter these strategies. Through quantitative analyses, case studies and policy examples, this bottom-up approach to climate change economics gives readers the tools to create effective responses to global warming. This self-contained book on the topic covers key scientific and economic subjects in an applied, innovative and immediately relevant fashion.

The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change: Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making shows readers how to understand mitigation strategies emerging from global warming policy discussions and the ways that changing climate conditions can alter these strategies. Through quantitative analyses, case studies and policy examples, this bottom-up approach to climate change economics gives readers the tools to create effective responses to global warming. This self-contained book on the topic covers key scientific and economic subjects in an applied, innovative and immediately relevant fashion.

Key Features

  • Unravels individual behaviors and national policies about global warming by evaluating their evolving motives and incentives
  • Provides an economic analysis of the ways individuals makes decisions when faced with climate change
  • Details a full range of alternative economic and policy responses, placing them in an integrated conceptual and policy framework
  • Unravels individual behaviors and national policies about global warming by evaluating their evolving motives and incentives
  • Provides an economic analysis of the ways individuals makes decisions when faced with climate change
  • Details a full range of alternative economic and policy responses, placing them in an integrated conceptual and policy framework

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978-0-12-811874-0

Language

English

Published

2017

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Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Academic Press

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Authors

S. Niggol Seo

Muaebak Institute of Global Warming Studies, Seoul, Korea

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand