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582356
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b411575
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| Main Entry
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Nordhaus, William D.
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| Title & Author
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The climate casino : : risk, uncertainty, and economics for a warming world /\ William Nordhaus
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xiii, 378 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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9780300189773 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 030018977X (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Pt I. The Genesis of Climate Change. 1. First Encounters in the Climate Casino -- 2. A Tale of Two Lakes -- 3. The Economic Origins of Climate Change -- 4. Future Climate Change -- 5. Tipping Points in the Climate Casino
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Pt II. Impacts of Climate Change on Human and Other Living Systems. 6. From Climate Change to Impacts -- 7. The Fate of Farming -- 8. The Impact on Human Health -- 9. Perils for the Oceans -- 10. Intensification of Hurricanes -- 11. Wildlife and Species Loss -- 12. Adding Up the Damages from Climate Change
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Pt III. Slowing Climate Change : Strategies and Costs. 13. Dealing with Climate Change : Adaptation and Geoengineering -- 14. Slowing Climate Change by Reducing Emissions : Mitigation -- 15. The Costs of Slowing Climate Change -- 16. Discounting and the Value of Time
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Pt IV. Policies and institutions for slowing climate change. 17. Historical Perspectives on Climate Policy -- 18. Climate Policy by Balancing Costs and Benefits -- 19. The Central Role of Carbon Prices -- 20. Climate-Change Policies at the National Level -- 21. From National to Harmonized International Policies -- 22. Second Best and Beyond -- 23. New Technologies for a Low-Carbon Economy
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Pt V. Climate politics. 24. Climate Science and Its Critics -- 25. Public Opinion on Climate Change -- 26. Obstacles to Climate-Change Policies
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| Abstract
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Bringing together all the important issues surrounding the climate debate, Nordhaus describes the science, economics, and politics involved-and the steps necessary to reduce the perils of global warming. Using language accessible to any concerned citizen and taking care to present different points of view fairly, he discusses the problem from start to finish: from the beginning, where warming originates in our personal energy use, to the end, where societies employ regulations or taxes or subsidies to slow the emissions of gases responsible for climate change
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Climatic changes-- Effect of human beings on
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Climatic changes
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Climatic changes-- Social aspects
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Environmental policy
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| Dewey Classification
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363.738/74
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QC903.N8545 2013
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