Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change Economics
This book describes the principles of integrated assessment models (IAM) for climate change economics and introduces various computable models for different development mechanisms under climate change governance. The authors present several new models the
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Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change Economics
Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change Economics
Zheng Wang Jing Wu Changxin Liu Gaoxiang Gu •
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Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change Economics
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Changxin Liu Beijing China
Zheng Wang Institute of Policy and Management Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
Gaoxiang Gu Population Research Institute East China Normal University Shanghai China
Jing Wu Institute of Policy and Management Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
ISBN 978-981-10-3943-0 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-3945-4
ISBN 978-981-10-3945-4
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Preface
Global change is a challenge that mankind faces. Therefore, tackling global change is an important task of scientists. I am a geographer and I have been working on China’s historical climate change issue for a long time. We have a unique advantage in this study because of the vast history of China. However, in 1999, I gradually realized the importance of tackling climate change, and China as a superpower should play a greater role in the study. I began to study the problem of global climate change economics according to the requirements of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007; further, I found that this is a complex scientific problem combined with physical science and economic science. At this time, the published paper of Prof. Nordhaus and Prof. Yang at AER in 1996 lits up me like a lighthouse, through which I feel that the core problem is IAM. The global economic crisis took place i
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