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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Llavador, Humberto,; Roemer, John E.,; Silvestre, Joaquim,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Ano de Publicação: 2015
• Edição: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Idioma: English
• Descrição Física: 1 online resource (238 p.) :; 20 graphs, 2 charts, 27 tables
• Other title: 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
• Resumo: 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 ethics of sustainability and egalitarianism.
• Formato: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674286597; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674286597
• Acesso: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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...