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Zusatztext 'What a great idea! Get 100 qualified individuals! or teams! to produce brief! 2-page analyses of urgent policy issues a nontechnical encyclopedia of current issues in climate! energy! ecology! and related topics. My suggestion: read one each day! and think about it all day. In a hundred days you'll be hugely enriched. Only RFF could do this.'Thomas C. Schelling! University of Maryland! Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics'This unique book offers an impressive set of brief! understandable! and authoritative analyses of 100 issues in the important policy areas on which recent RFF research has focused. It belongs on the bookshelf of everyone who has ever encountered an unfamiliar issue in this broad domain and wondered!What is the best thinking on this? It is a terrific source of readings for courses dealing with public policy.'Richard Schmalensee! Massachusetts Institute of Technology'The short essays in this volume provide a treasure trove of interesting analyses of a variety of important economic policy issues. Instructors in economics and public policy courses will particularly value the clear! sensible! and student-friendly fashion in which microeconomic tools are employed.'Harvey S. Rosen! Princeton University'In this refreshingly different approach to environmental policy! we hear from a very wide variety of the world's environmental economists and policy researchers! with short and pointed opinion pieces. This is great reading and should be valuable for anyone who wishes to appreciate the nuances of solving many of today's pressing environmental problems.'Charles D. Kolstad! University of California! Santa Barbara Informationen zum Autor Ian W.H. Parry (Ph.D. U Chicago) is a senior fellow at Resources for the Future. Felicia Day is managing editor in the communications department of Resources for the Future. Klappentext Offers an easy way for students! academics! journalists! policymakers! and the public to learn about a diverse range of policy issues affecting the environment! energy! transportation! and public health. Zusammenfassung Offers an easy way for students, academics, journalists, policymakers, and the public to learn about a diverse range of policy issues affecting the environment, energy, transportation, and public health. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editor's Introduction. Global Environmental Challenges 1. Stabilizing Atmospheric CO2 with Incomplete International Cooperation. 2. A Pragmatic Global Climate Policy Architecture. 3. Thinking Beyond Borders: Why We Need to Focus on Global Public Goods. 4. The Value of Climate-Related Satellite Data. 5. The Successful International Response to Stratospheric Ozone Depletion. 6. Evaluating Europe's Plan for Reducing Greenhouse Gases. 7. Climate Change Policy in the United States: Previewing the Debate. 8. Which Is the Better Climate Policy: Emissions Taxes or Emissions Trading? 9. Should Cap-and-Trade Systems be Supplemented with Renewable Portfolio Standards? 10. Inducing Innovation for Climate Change Mitigation. 11. How Should Emissions Allowance Auctions Be Designed? 12. Competitiveness, Emissions Leakage, and Climate Policy. 13. Addressing Biodiversity and Global Warming by Preserving Tropical Forests. 14. Forests in a U.S. Climate Program: Promising, but the Key is Implementation. 15. Emissions Offsets in a Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Policy. 16. Ethics and Discounting Global Warming Damages. 17. Climate Change Abatement: Not 'Stern' Enough? 18. Evaluating Climate Risks in Coastal Zones. Energy Policies 19. Reflections on Three Decades of US Energy Policy. 20. The Oil Security Problem: 'D j Vu All Over Again'. 21. Reassessing Oil Security. 22. The 2008 Oil Price Shock: Markets or Mayhem? 23...
