Editors:
- A unique blend of Earth science, economics and decision sciences to address a crucial issue of this century
- A perspective on the most advanced integrated assessment models currently developed to study climate change policies
- A broad scope of scientific innovation, spanning new mathematical paradigms and examples of implementation of integrated and impact assessment at the world and regional levels
- An international panel of contributors from Europe and North-America
Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 22)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Climate and economies have interdependent dynamics. Even though the pace of climate change is probably much slower than the speed of adjustment of the world economies, the global climate change impact of economic development and growth has to be controlled and taken into account in the policy assessment process. Integrated assessment models are now trying to capture the different feedbacks that link the climate system and the development of human societies. This book reviews the different approaches used to model these dynamic interactions between climate and economies and proposes new avenues of research in this domain. In fourteen chapters this book deals with various aspects of the building of integrated assessment models, either by coupling economic growth and climate change modules, or using mathematical models of viability or dynamic game theory to represent the interactions between the world regions concerned. It also focuses on more specific economic equilibrium models that can be used to assess international climate policies and it addresses the modelling of impacts of climate change in Switzerland as a test region.
This book is the result of several years of joint research in an interdisciplinary project on the human dimension of climate change. It proposes innovative ways to include climate simulation modules in optimal economic growth models; it explores the possible use of computable general economic equilibrium models coupled with paradigms of game theory to assess the dividends of cooperation in climate policies; it reports on the building of multi-region dynamic energy-technology-environment models to assess the possible response of the world energy system to a global cap on GHG emissions, and it shows how to model the impacts of climate change at a regional level.
This book is meant to serve as a reference work for researchers and graduate students who engage in interdisciplinary studies at the boundary between Earth and Socialsciences.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Geneva, Switzerland
Alain Haurie
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Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Laurent Viguier
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Coupling of Climate and Economic Dynamics
Book Subtitle: Essays on Integrated Assessment
Editors: Alain Haurie, Laurent Viguier
Series Title: Advances in Global Change Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3425-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3424-4Published: 05 July 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6861-3Published: 22 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3425-1Published: 10 November 2005
Series ISSN: 1574-0919
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 384
Topics: Pollution, general, Climate Change, Environmental Science and Engineering, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Environmental Physics