List of Contributors

1. The Macroeconomics of Global Warming


PART I: GROWTH AND CLIMATE CHANGE
2. Improving Climate Projections to Better Inform Climate Risk Management

3. Energy Balance Climate Models, Damage Reservoirs and the Time Profile of Climate Change Policy

4. Economics of Environmental Regime Shifts

5. Policy Scenarios in a Model of Optimal Economics Growth and Climate Change

6. Adaptive Model-Predictive Climate Policies in a Multi-Country Setting


PART II: MITIGATION POLICY MODELING
7. Prospects of Tools from Differential Games in the Study of Macroeconomics of Climate Change

8. Fairness in Climate Negotiations: A Meta-Game Analysis Based on Community Integrated Assessment

9. Climate Change and Second-Best Abatement in a Multi-Region World with Endogenous Growth

10. Global Warming and R&D-Based Growth in a Trade Model between Environmentally Sensitive and Environmentally Neglectful Countries

11. Climate Change and Inter-Generational Wellbeing

12. The Atmosphere as a Global Commons: Challenges for International Cooperation and Governance

13. The Social Cost of Carbon


PART III: TECHNOLOGY AND ENERGY POLICIES
14. Climate-Friendly Technological Change for Developing Countries

15. Renewable Energy: Models, Implications, and Prospects

16. Emission Trading Systems and Technological Innovation: A Random Matching Model

17. The Reality of Nuclear Power: The Fukushima Experience and Its Impact


PART IV: ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION
18. Forecast Based Pricing of Weather Derivatives

19. Employment and Output Effects of Climate Policies

20. Macroeconomic Effects of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Policies with a Focus on Germany


PART V: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
21. The Stabilization of Earth's Climate in the 21st Century by the Stabilization of Per Capita Consumption

22. Does Kyoto Protocol Intensify Carbon Leakage to China?

23. Climate Thresholds, Weather Extremes, and Catastrophic Losses

24. Climate Impacts on Agriculture: A Challenge to Complacency?


PART VI: DIRECTIONS IN MITIGATION POLICY DESIGN
25. The Legal Framework of Global Environment Governance on Climate Change: A Critical Survey

26. Environment and Development Challenges: The Imperative of a Carbon Fee and Dividend

27. The Need for Sustainable Development and a Carbon Market: Avoiding Extinction