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Introduction: Issues and Developments in Climate Change

In: Climate Change and Economic Development

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  • Jamie Sanderson
  • Sardar M. N. Islam

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Since the peak of public awareness in the early 1990s the global environmental problem known as climate change1 has been developing and transforming rapidly in recent years, as evidenced in the recent Stern Report (Stern, Peters, Bakhshi, et al. 2006). One of the most important factors has been the transformation of adaptation from an issue that early on was either ignored or given as an afterthought in the overall climate change debate, whereas now it is a much more significant theoretical and policy issue. This book examines the theoretical and practical aspects of adaptation to climate change from an economic perspective. The basis for this analysis is the implementation of a dynamic optimisation integrated model that will be used to explore and expand upon the issues and arguments that will be raised in this book. The model implemented here will be based upon the Dynamic Integrated Climate and Economy model (DICE) of Nordhaus (see Nordhaus and Boyer 2000) and its geographical scope will be the region of South East Asia (SEA). This type of modelling is still developing and is burdened with high levels of uncertainty.

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  • Jamie Sanderson & Sardar M. N. Islam, 2007. "Introduction: Issues and Developments in Climate Change," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Climate Change and Economic Development, chapter 1, pages 1-19, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59012-0_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230590120_1
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