Sustainability for a Warming Planet / / Joaquim Silvestre, John E. Roemer, Humberto Llavador.

Human-generated greenhouse gas emissions imperil a global resource: a biosphere capable of supporting life as we know it. What is the fair way to share this scarce resource across present and future generations and across regions of the world? This study offers a new perspective based on the guiding...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
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Utgivningsår:2015
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Sustainability and Discounted Utilitarianism
  • 2. An Introductory Model with Education and Skilled Labor
  • 3. Sustainability for a Warming World
  • 4. The “Climate-Change Economics” Literature: Nordhaus and Stern
  • 5. Sustainability in a Warming, Two- Region World
  • 6. Modeling Catastrophes: Two Extensions
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A: Calibration
  • Appendix B: Mathematica Code
  • References
  • Index