Economic risks of climate change : an American prospectus / Trevor Houser, Solomon Hsiang, Robert Kopp, Kate Larsen, Michael Delgado, Amir Jina, Michael Mastrandrea, Shashank Mohan, Robert Muir-Wood, D. J. Rasmussen, James Rising, Paul Wilson ; with contributions from Karen Fisher-Vanden, Michael Greenstone, Geoffrey Heal, Michael Oppenheimer, Nicholas Stern, and Bob Ward ; and a foreword by Michael R. Bloomberg, Henry M. Paulson Jr., and Thomas F. Steyer
By: Houser, Trevor [author].
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]Description: xviii, 360 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 30 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780231174565.Subject(s): Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- United States | Climatic changes -- Risk management -- United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | QC903.2.U6 H68 2015 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000005255 |
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- What we know -- What comes next -- U.S. climate projections -- An evidence-based approach -- Agriculture -- Labor -- Health -- Crime -- Energy -- Coast communities -- From impacts to economics -- Direct costs and benefits -- Macroeconomic effects -- Valuing risk and inequality of damages -- What we miss -- Water -- Forests -- Tourism -- National security -- Mitigation -- Adaptation