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Author Llavador, Humberto.

Title Sustainability for a warming planet / Humberto Llavador, John E. Roemer, and Joaquim Silvestre.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  363.7387 L791S    Check Shelf
Description xi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Sustainability and Discounted Utilitarianism -- Appendix: The Ramsey Problem -- An Introductory Model with Education and Skilled Labor -- Appendix: Proofs -- Sustainability for a Warming World -- Appendix: Proofs -- The "Climate Change Economics" Literature: Nordhaus and Stern -- Sustainability in a Warming, Two-Region World -- Appendix: Formal Details -- Modeling Catastrophes: Two Extensions -- Appendix: Proofs and Calibration -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Calibration -- Appendix B: Mathematica Code.
Summary The authors provide a normative approach to global warming that they call sustainability. It consists in finding an economic path that, while satisfying environmental and other constraints, would maintain human welfare for all future generations. They also explain why the current discounted utilitarian approach is unsatisfactory. The book has many original arguments expressed in a clear, logical structure. It should be required reading for graduate students in public economics.
"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. Sustainability is understood as a pattern of economic activity over time that sustains a given rate of growth of human welfare indefinitely. To achieve this, the atmospheric concentration of carbon must be capped at some level not much higher than exists today, and investments in education and research should be higher than they currently are. International cooperation between developing and developed nations is also vital, because economic growth and the climate problem are intertwined. The authors propose that the guiding principle of bargaining should be that the dates at which developing countries' living standards catch up with those of developed countries should not be altered by the agreement. They conclude that developed economies would have to agree not to exceed 1 percent growth in per capita GDP annually, while developing nations should grow at a faster rate, but still lower than current projections, until they converge. The authors acknowledge that achieving such a dramatic slowdown would carry political and economic challenges." -- Publisher's description
Subject Climate change mitigation.
Greenhouse gas mitigation.
Carbon sequestration.
Carbon sequestration. (OCoLC)fst00846873
Climate change mitigation. (OCoLC)fst01749583
Greenhouse gas mitigation. (OCoLC)fst00947703
Klimaänderung. (DE-588)4164199-1
Sequestrierung. (DE-588)7610107-1
Treibhauseffekt. (DE-588)4226436-4
Minskning av växthusgaser.
Minskning av koldioxid.
Added Author Roemer, John E.
Silvestre, Joaquim.
Standard No. 40025163915
ISBN 9780674744097 (hardcover ;) (alk. paper)
0674744098 (hardcover ;) (alk. paper)
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