Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming (The MIT Press) - Softcover

Nordhaus, William D. D.; Boyer, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262640546 ISBN 13: 9780262640541

Publisher: MIT Press, 2003

Synopsis

This book presents in detail a pair of models of the economics of climate change. The models, called RICE-99 (for the Regional Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy) and DICE-99 (for the Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and the Economy) build on the authors' earlier work, particularly their RICE and DICE models of the early 1990s.

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Review

Warming the World should be required reading for policy makers, politicians, environmentalists, and the concerned public.

--Thomas Gale Moore, Journal of Political Economy

Synopsis

Humanity is risking the health of the natural environment through a myriad of interventions, including the atmospheric emission of trace gases such as carbon dioxide, the use of ozone-depleting chemicals, the engineering of massive land-use changes, and the destruction of the habitats of many species. It is imperative that we learn to protect our common geophysical and biological resources. Although scientists have studied greenhouse warming for decades, it is only recently that society has begun to consider the economic, political and institutional aspects of environmental intervention. To do so raises formidable challenges of data modelling, uncertainty, international coordination and institutional design. Attempts to deal with complex scientific and economic issues have increasingly involved the use of models to help analysts and decision makers understand likely future outomes as well as the implications of alternative policies. This book presents in detail a pair of models of the economics of climate change.

The models, called RICE-99 (for the Regional dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy) and DICE-99 (for the Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy) build on the author's earlier work, particularly their RICE and DICE models of the early 1990s. They can help policy makers design better economic and environmental policies.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0262640546
• ISBN 13: 9780262640541
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 244