An edition of The economics of climate change
(2011)
The economics of climate change
adaptations past and present
by Gary D. Libecap and Steckel, Richard H.
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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.
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The economics of climate change: adaptations past and present
2011, The University of Chicago Press
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0226479889 9780226479880
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Table of Contents
Climate change: adaptations in historical perspective / Gary D. Libecap and Richard H. Steckel
Additive damages, fat-tailed climate dynamics, and uncertain discounting / Martin L. Weitzman
Modeling the impact of warming in climate change economics / Robert S. Pindyck
Droughts, floods and financial distress in the United States / John Landon-Lane, Hugh Rockoff, and Richard H. Steckel
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
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
Responding to climatic challenges: lessons from U.S. agricultural development / Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode
The impact of the 1936 corn-belt drought on american farmers' adoption of hybrid corn / Richard Sutch
The evolution of heat tolerance of corn: implications for climate change / Michael J. Roberts and Wolfram Schlenker
Climate variability and water infrastructure: historical experience in the western United States / Zeynep K. Hansen, Gary D. Libecap, and Scott E. Lowe
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
Impacts of climate change on residential electricity consumption: evidence from billing data / Anin Aroonruengsawat and Maximilian Auffhammer
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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