The economics of the Yasuní initiative
Subtitle: climate change as if thermodynamics mattered
By: Joseph Henry Vogel ; with foreword by Graciela Chichilnisky, and filmography by Janny Robles.
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9781843318781; 9781843318743; 9781843318637
Subjects: Environmental policy -- Economic aspects; Environmental policy -- Economic aspects -- Ecuador; Climatic changes -- Economic aspects; Greenhouse gas mitigation -- Economic aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thermodynamics: the language chosen defines the debate; title: The tragedy of the commons: a class of problems that has no technical solution; title: The willful ignorance of realpolitik: market failure or cost-shifting success?; title: The general theory of second best: a rigorous justification for an intuitively just proposal; title: Through the bottleneck of a cowboy economy: financing shovel-ready projects; title: Conclusions: reason for hope and despair.