Citation
(2012), "The Economics of Climate Change", International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Vol. 4 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCCSM.41404aaa.010
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
The Economics of Climate Change
Article Type: Books and resources From: International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Volume 4, Issue 1
Edited by Graciela Chichilnisky
Edward Elgar
Cheltenhan, Glo
2010
984 pp.
US$ 550.00
ISBN 9781847207678
Natural resources are our lifeline, and increasing public concern about the scarcity and vulnerability of clean air, water, soil, the oceans, and even a stable climate has caused and continues to cause a fundamental change to economic thinking. This two-volume collection brings together critical essays on the economics of climate change, describing advances in the field ranging from the Kyoto Protocol carbon market, to sustainability criteria, international trade, and the management of catastrophic risks.
The pieces document how we are shedding veil upon veil of economic assumptions exposing dated ways of thinking that we built during the last few centuries, and now seem inadequate. This includes the very notion of economic progress, and how it is measured; the dynamics of economic growth, the notion of what constitutes the wealth of nations and the foundations of international trade among nations. It includes North-South relations between rich and poor nations, and even the foundations of market economics.