Efforts for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions require economically efficient and ecologically effective policies. This book examines the effectiveness of quantity regulation, such as emissions trading,…
Adaptation to climate change in southern and eastern Mediterranean countries is particularly relevant because of the strong expected effects on the region and the sensitivity of important sectors like…
The evaluation of long-term eects of climate change in cost-bene t analysis has a long tradition in environmental economics. Since the publication of the Stern Review in 2006 the debate about the "appropriate"…
The assessment of climate change mitigation policies mainly depends on three not mutually exclusive modeling decisions: First, the chosen discount rate, since costs are incurred today and long-term benefi ts…
Since the problem of climate change has drawn attention both in political and academic agenda, the question of how much people are willing to pay for the mitigation of global warming has been a subject of keen…
At times, the term structural change has been used largely in debates regarding increasing unemployment in industrial nations because of movements of industries into low-wage countries. Therefore, structural…
