Note: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- About Resources for the Future and RFF Press -- Resources for the Future -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1: Climate Change Economics and Policies: An Overview -- Part 1: Introduction -- 2: How the Kyoto Protocol Developed: A Brief History -- 3: The Energy-CO2 Connection: A Review of Trends and Challenges -- 4: How Much Climate Change Is Too Much? An Economics Perspective -- Appendix A: The Costs of the Kyoto Protocol -- Part 2: Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- 5: Agriculture and Climate Change -- 6: Water Resources and Climate Change -- 7: Forests and Climate Change -- 8: "Ancillary Benefits" of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policies -- Appendix B: Climate Change, Health Risks, and Economics -- Part 3: Policy Design and Implementation Issues -- 9: Choosing Price or Quantity Controls for Greenhouse Gases -- 10: Using Emissions Trading to Regulate National Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- 11: Revenue Recycling and the Costs of Reducing Carbon Emissions -- 12: Confronting the Adverse Industry Impacts of CO2 Abatement Policies: What Does It Cost? -- 13: Carbon Sinks in the Post-Kyoto World -- 14: Environmentally and Economically Damaging Subsidies: Concepts and Illustrations -- 15: Electricity Restructuring: Shortcut or Detour on the Road to Achieving Greenhouse Gas Reductions? -- 16: The Role of Renewable Resources in U.S. Electricity Generation: Experience and Prospects -- 17: Energy-Efficient Technologies and Climate Change Policies: Issues and Evidence -- 18: Climate Change Policy Choices and Technical Innovation -- 19: Greenhouse Gas "Early Reduction" Programs: A Critical Appraisal -- Appendix C: Climate Policy and the Economics of Technical Advance: Drawing on Inventive Activity -- Part 4: International Considerations -- 20: Policy Design for International Greenhouse Gas Control. , 21: Establishing and Operating the Clean Development Mechanism -- 22: Allocating Liability in International Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading and the Clean Development Mechanism -- 23: International Equity and Climate Change Policy -- 24: The Economics of Climate-Friendly Technology Diffusion in Developing Countries -- 25: Including Developing Countries in Global Efforts for Greenhouse Gas Reduction -- 26: Moving Ahead with Climate Policy -- Glossary -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Motor Vehicles and Pollution in Central and Eastern Europe -- Assessing the Health Benefits of Improved Air Quality in Central and Eastern Europe -- Using Economic Incentives to Reduce Air Pollution Emissions in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland -- Cost-Effective Control of Water Pollution in Central and Eastern Europe -- Tradable Sulfur Dioxide Emission Permits and European Economic Integration -- The Allocation of Environmental Liabilities in Central and Eastern Europe -- Environmental Policies, Economic Restructuring, and Institutional Development in the Former Soviet Union -- Economic Restructuring and the Environment: Exploiting Win-Win Opportunities.

Note: Intro -- India and Global Climate Change Perspectives on Economics and Policy from a Developing Country -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- PART I Economic Drivers of Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- CHAPTER 2. Future Energy Trends and Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- CHAPTER 3. Developmental Sustainability Implications of the Economic Reforms in the Energy Sector -- CHAPTER 4. Economic Policy Reforms: Implications for Energy Consumption -- CHAPTER 5. Some Issues in Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Informal Energy-Using Sector -- CHAPTER 6. Endogenous Substitution of Energy Resources:Theory and Application to the Energy Sector -- PART II Options for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation -- CHAPTER 7. Policies for Carbon Abatement in the Presence of Regulatory Distortions:The Electricity Generating Sector -- CHAPTER 8. Carbon Sequestration in Forests: Potential and Incremental Costs -- CHAPTER 9. Evaluating Greenhouse Gas Control Strategies Using Multicriteria Approaches -- CHAPTER 10. Energy Economy Model Applications: Long-Term Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trends and Mitigation Costs -- CHAPTER 11. Incentive-Based Approaches for Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Issues and Prospects -- PART III International Climate Policy -- CHAPTER 12. A Noncooperative Theory of Emissions-Cap Determination -- CHAPTER 13. The Kyoto Protocol and Developing Countries: Strategy and Equity Issues -- CHAPTER 14. Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions:An Example of Short-Term and Long-Term Criteria -- CHAPTER 15. The Clean Development Mechanism: Issues and Options -- PART IV Conclusions -- CHAPTER 16. India's Efforts to Minimize Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Policies, Measures, and Institutions -- CHAPTER 17. Global Climate Change: Indian Perspective Revisited and Restated -- Afterword -- Climate Change Impacts on India -- Index.

Note: Intro -- Scarcity and Growth Revisited Natural Resources and the Environment in the New Millennium -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction: The "New Scarcity -- CHAPTER 2. Mineral Resources and Consumption in the Twenty-First Century -- CHAPTER 3. Economics of Scarcity: The State of the Debate -- CHAPTER 4. Ecosystem Goods and Services and Their Limits: The Roles of Biological Diversity and Management Practices -- CHAPTER 5. Emerging Scarcities: Bioenergy-Food Competition in a Carbon Constrained World -- CHAPTER 6. Sustainability and Its Economic Interpretations -- CHAPTER 7. Resources, Scarcity, Technology and Growth -- CHAPTER 8. Endogenous Technological Change, Natural Resources, and Growth -- CHAPTER 9. Evolutionary Analysis of the Relationship between Economic Growth, Environmental Quality, and Resource Scarcity -- CHAPTER 10. Environmental Policy as a Tool for Sustainability -- CHAPTER 11. Public Policy: Inducing Investment in Innovation -- CHAPTER 12. The Marvels and Perils of Modernity: A Comment -- CHAPTER 13. Intragenerational versus Intergenerational Equity: Views from the South -- CHAPTER 14. Sustainable Economic Development in the World of Today's Poor -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- LISTS OF FIGURES AND TABLES -- PREFACE -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- Scope of the Analysis -- The Plan of This Book -- 2 ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK -- The Optimization Model -- Stochastic Sensitivity Analysis -- Data Preparation -- Cost of Power Imports -- Appendix: Additional Discussion of Demand Representation -- 3 SELECTION OF TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS -- Changing Power Plant Economics -- Design of the Technology Menu -- 4 INPUT PARAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS -- Demand -- Cost and Performance of New Capacity Investment -- Fuel Prices and Environmental Regulations -- Discount Rates -- Summary of Input Assumptions for the Sensitivity Analysis -- 5 FINDINGS FROM THE MODEL -- Technology Choice and Investment Size Under the New-Trade Regime -- Impacts of Different Power Trading Regimes -- Sensitivity Analysis -- Summary: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Model Results -- 6 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY CHOICE -- Results from the Model -- 7 DIRECTIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH -- REFERENCES -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS.

Note: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Half Title -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- Characteristics of the Supply Process -- The Dynamics of Supply -- Individual Versus Market Behavior -- 2 THE BASIC THEORY OF SUPPLY BEHAVIOR -- Extraction from a Fixed Reserve -- The r Percent Rule -- Development and Discovery of New Reserves -- Behavioral Implications and Ambiguities -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix -- 3 JOINT PRODUCTS, EXTERNALITIES, AND TECHNICAL CHANGE -- Joint Products -- Common Property Externalities -- Technical Progress -- Concluding Remarks -- 4 UNCERTAINTY, EXPECTATIONS, AND SUPPLY BEHAVIOR -- Modeling Expectations and Decisions Under Uncertainty -- Effects of Uncertainty -- Rational Expectations in Linear Supply Models -- Comer Solutions and Certainty Equivalence Bias -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix -- 5 AGGREGATE SUPPLY AND MARKET BEHAVIOR -- Heterogeneity and Aggregation Problems -- Market Interactions -- Rational Expectations Market Equilibrium -- Price and Output Controls -- Noncompetitive Markets -- Concluding Remarks -- 6 EMPIRICAL METHODS AND PROBLEMS -- Empirical Pitfalls and Their Implications -- Petroleum Supply Data -- Characteristics of Petroleum Supply Models -- Concluding Remarks -- 7 SUMMARY AND RESEARCH SUGGESTIONS -- Directions for Further Research -- Final Comment -- References -- Index.

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Note: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Nonlinearities and Surprises in Climate Change: An Introduction and Overview -- Facts and Uncertainties of Climate Change -- Nonlinearities and Surprises in the Links of Farming to Climate or Weather -- What Are Nonlinear Responses at the Biome Level? -- The Importance of Nonlinearities in Global Warming Damage Costs -- Sorting Out Facts and Uncertainties in Economic Response to the Physical Effects of Global Climate Change -- Assessing Climate Change Risks: Valuation of Effects -- List of Contributors -- List of Workshop Participants.