Economics and Management of Climate Change Risks, Mitigation and Adaptation

Economics and Management of Climate Change Risks, Mitigation and Adaptation / edited by Bernd Hansjürgens, Ralf Antes.

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges for mankind. Although there is increasing evidence that climate change is already occurring, there is neither sufficient knowledge as to what extent climate change poses risks to societies and companies, nor about adequate strategies to cope with these...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Hansjürgens, Bernd (Editor), Antes, Ralf (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Environmental economics.
Climate change.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Climate change risks, mitigation and adaptation
  • Introduction: Climate change risks, mitigation and adaptation
  • Climate change risks and risk assessment Climate change risks and risk assessment
  • Rising natural catastrophe losses – what is the role of climate change?
  • Evaluation of risk in cost-benefit analysis of climate change
  • A global climate change risk assessment of droughts and floods
  • Effects of low water levels on the river Rhine on the inland waterway transport sector
  • Spillover impacts of climate policy on energyintensive industry
  • Risks, vulnerability, and participation: a layered management approach
  • Mitigation: emissions trading and CDM
  • Intensity targets: implications for the economic uncertainties of emissions trading
  • Three types of impact from the European Emission Trading Scheme: direct cost, indirect cost and uncertainty
  • Participants’ treatment of allowance price uncertainty: how are risk-aversion and real option values related to each other?
  • Climate change, sustainable development and risk: realizing a financial fund within the TEM model as an economic and business opportunity
  • Current evaluation practice of the Clean Development Mechanism
  • Sustainable development, the Clean Development Mechanism, and business accounting
  • Risk management in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) – the potential of sustainability
  • Economic and social risks associated with implementing CDM projects among SME – a case study of foundry industry in India
  • Adaptation: corporate responses to climate change
  • Developments in corporate responses to climate change within the past decade
  • Impacts of climate change on the electricity sector and possible adaptation measures
  • Modelling impacts of climate change policy uncertainty on power investment
  • Reputational impact of businesses’ compliance strategies under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
  • Prudence, profit and the perfect storm: climate change risk and fiduciary duty of directors
  • Business risks and opportunities from climate change in large developing countries – a case study focusing on China.

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