ARGUMENT IN THE GREENHOUSE by Sujata Gupta, Stephen Hall, Nick Mabey ( 9780415149099 )

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ARGUMENT IN THE GREENHOUSE
THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS OF CONTROLLING GLOBAL WARMING

By:

Sujata Gupta, Stephen Hall, Nick Mabey

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ISBN 10:

0415149096

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9780415149099

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

13 February, 1997

Pages:

464

Description:

Covering both the developing and developed world, this book identifies important new policies to foster effective agrements on emmissions - realistic policies which are likely to receive support at international and domestic levels.

Synopsis:

How can greenhouse gases be controlled and reduced? Will it be in time? This book adds a significant new contribution to the crucial climate change/global warming debate. Incorporating the key political and legal considerations into 'real world' applied economic analysis, the authors provide a unique focus on the wider political economy of the problem. All the key issues of controlling climate change (costs, timing and degree of stabilisation, ecological taxt reform, developing countries, and evolution of international agreements), are placed firmly within the current legal and political context, with state-of-the-art economic techniques introduced to analyse different policy proposals. Covering both the developing and developed world, this book identifies important new policies to foster effective agreements on eissions and prevent global warming - realistic policies, likely to receive support at both international and domestic levels. be in time? This book adds a significant new contribution to the crucial climate change/global warming debate.Incorporating the key political and legal considerations into 'real world' applied economic analysis, the book's authors provide a unique focus on the wider political economy of the problem. All the key issues of controlling climate change (costs, timing and degree of stabilisation, ecological tax reform, developing countries and evolution of international agreements), are placed firmly within the current legal and political economy context, with state-of-the-art economic techniques introduced to analyse different policy proposals. Covering both the developing and developed world, this book identifies important new policies to foster effective agreements on emmissions and prevent global warming - realistic policies which are likely to receive support at both international and domestic levels.

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66 black & white tables

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Routledge

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