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PUBLICATIONS FROM OTHER SOURCES | SEMINAR & WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
Publications from Other Sources
Environment & Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making by Scott Barrett: Scott Barrett has produced a readable, understandable, and successful application of elementary game theory to the incentives that determine whether international treaties succeed or fail, and to the incentives to participate and, if participating, to comply. Barretts mastery of incentive theory makes a lot of puzzling issues clear. From fur seals to ozone to carbon dioxide he has a theoretical framework that makes impressive sense. Thomas C. Schelling, Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, University of Maryland. Environmental & Statecraft is available at Amazon.com. The Economics of Climate Change: A Primer, April 2003 a Congressional Budget Office Study: This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study presents an overview of the issue of climate change, focusing primarily on its economic aspects. The study draws from many published sources to summarize the current state of climate science. It also provides a conceptual framework for considering climate change as an economic problem, examines public policies and the trade _offs among them, and discusses the potential complications and benefits of international coordination. The Economics of Climate Change is available at the CBO website. Who Will Pay?: Coping With Aging Societies, Climate Change, and Other Long-Term Fiscal Challenges by Peter S. Heller: Aging populations. Weather shocks. Scarce water. Globalization. Security threats. Policymakers today confront a number of developments that threaten to burden public budgets for decades to come, or bankrupt some entirely. The book argues that governments need to make policy changes now to take account of the potential fiscal consequences of these developments. After describing how analysts, national governments, and international organizations presently address, if at all, these long-term issues, the book stresses the vital need of a multipronged approach, involving strengthened analyses, greater attention to long-term issues and risk factors in the budgeting, and institutional reforms that address the myopic biases of politicians and the public. Who Will Pay? is available at Amazon.com. Joint letter to Senators McCain and Lieberman by Glenn Hubbard and Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University, Gradutate School of Business. Two distinguished economists, who have carefully studied climate policy, have concluded that an allowance price safety valve is a crucially important feature for greenhouse gas emission controls. The safety valve is essential to ensures that the costs of emission controls do not seriously dampen economic growth. It is interesting that the economists, who have differed on many points of public policy, note that the safety valve is a policy in which virtually all economists agree. The economists Glenn Hubbard and Joseph Stiglitz expressed their views in a joint letter to Senators McCain and Lieberman. The Hubbard-Stiglitz letter can be found . Environmental Values in American Culture by Willett Kempton, James S. Boster, and Jennifer A. Hartley: An anthropological study of how Americans view global warming and other environmental changes, drawing on interviews and surveys of the general public as well as members of groups ranging from Earth First! to laid-off Oregon sawmill workers. Among the findings are that the public and scientists have completely different understandings of some critical environmental problems and proposed policy solutions, that environmental values have already become intertwined with other American values, and that an environmental view of the world is more universal than previous studies have suggested. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Environmental Values in American Culture is available at Amazon.com. Climate Change Policy after Kyoto: Blueprint for a Realistic Approach by Warwick J. McKibbin & Peter J. Wilcoxen: McKibbin, (international economics, Australian National U.) and Wilcoxen (economics, U. of Texas) propose an alternative framework for a global agreement designed to reduce pollutants driving the earth's climate change. Their model is designed to keep costs of polluter compliance low and "politically realistic." It is based on the creation of a market for polluting permits that could be traded within and between countries. After describing the economic basis for the policy, they discuss implementation issues. Book News, Inc. ®, Portland, OR - This text refers to the Paperback edition. Climate Change Policy after Kyoto is available at Amazon.com. Reilly, Smith, and Bernstein Memo to the Staff of Senators McCain and Lieberman, explains some of the reasons for the differences in results. John Reilly of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Anne Smith and Paul Bernstein of Charles River Associates, provided a more detailed explanation of the sources of the differences between the MIT and CRA models results. In their explanation Smith, Reilly, and Bernstein make an important observation, Widely discussed in climate change policy literature, a safety valve is a feature whereby, at some predetermined allowance price, a government agency would sell as many permits as needed to prevent the price from rising higher. Such a predetermined safety valve price would create clear expectations for producers and consumers about the cost of carbon emissions. The Reilly, Smith, and Bernstein Memo to the Staff of Senators McCain and Lieberman can be found . Reconstructing Climate Policy: Beyond Kyoto by Richard B. Stewart & Jonathan B. Wiener: Stewart and Wiener offers an analysis of the Kyoto Protocol and Climate Policy. It examines the current impasse in climate policy and the potential steps nations can take to reduce greenhouse gases. It also explains why participation by all major greenhouse gas-emitting countries is essential. Reconstructing Climate Policy is available at Amazon.com.