Foreword
Michael A. Toman
Preface
William D. Nordhaus
1. Assessing the Economics of Climate Change: An Introduction
William D. Nordhaus
Part 1. Major Analytical Issues
2. Policy Analysis for Decisionmaking About Climate Change
M. Granger Morgan
Comments
Akihiro Amano
Alan S. Manne
3. Equity and Discounting in Climate Change Decisions
Robert C. Lind and Richard E. Schuler
Comments
William R. Cline
Richard N. Cooper
4. Applicability of Cost-Benefit Analysis to Climate Change
Paul R. Portney
Comments
Ferenc L. Toth
5. Greenhouse Policy Architectures and Institutions
Richard Schmalensee
Comments
R. K. Pachauri
Part 2. Specific Climate Change Policy Issues
6. The Costs of Greenhouse Gas Abatement
Tom Kram
7. The Costs of Carbon Emissions Reductions
John P. Weyant
Comments
Richard Richels
8. Climate Change Damages
Robert Mendelsohn
Comments
Richard S. J. Tol
John Reilly
William R. Cline
9. Integrated Assessment Modeling of Climate Change
Charles D. Kolstad
Comments
John P. Weyant
Jae Edmonds
Index

William D. Nordhaus is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is a recognized authority on climate change: among his books are Managing the Global Commons and The Swedish Nuclear Dilemma: Energy and the Environment (RFF, 1997). He is coauthor (with Paul Samuelson) of Economics, now in its sixteenth edition.

In this volume, eminent analysts assess the IPCC Working Group report published in 1995 and address the questions that emerge from it. The result is an instructive and cogent look at the realities of climate change and some methods (and difficulties) of dealing with them. First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.