The economics of climate change
Subtitle: adaptations past and present
By: edited by Gary D. Libecap and Richard H. Steckel
Series: National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780226479880
Subjects: Economic aspects; Environmental conditions; Ecology; Congresses; Climatic changes
Description: This volume takes a close look at the ways in which economies particularly that of the United States, have adjusted to the challenges climate change poses, including institutional features that help insulate the economy from shocks, new crop varieties, irrigation, flood control and ways of extending cultivation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Climate change: adaptations in historical perspective / Gary D. Libecap and Richard H. Steckel; title: Additive damages, fat-tailed climate dynamics, and uncertain discounting / Martin L. Weitzman; title: Modeling the impact of warming in climate change economics / Robert S. Pindyck; title: Droughts, floods and financial distress in the United States / John Landon-Lane, Hugh Rockoff, and Richard H. Steckel; title: The effects of weather shocks on crop prices in unfettered markets: the United States prior to the farm programs, 1895-1932 / Jonathan Fox, Price V. Fishback, and Paul W. Rhode; title: Information and the impact of climate and weather on mortality rates during the Great Depression / Price V. Fishback, Werner Troesken, Trevor Kollmann, Michael Haines, Paul W. Rhode and Melissa Thomasson; title: Responding to climatic challenges: lessons from U.S. agricultural development / Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode; title: The impact of the 1936 corn-belt drought on american farmers' adoption of hybrid corn / Richard Sutch; title: The evolution of heat tolerance of corn: implications for climate change / Michael J. Roberts and Wolfram Schlenker; title: Climate variability and water infrastructure: historical experience in the western United States / Zeynep K. Hansen, Gary D. Libecap, and Scott E. Lowe; title: Did Frederick Brodie discover the world's first environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal smoke and the rise and fall of the London fog / Karen Clay and Werner Troesken; title: Impacts of climate change on residential electricity consumption: evidence from billing data / Anin Aroonruengsawat and Maximilian Auffhammer