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The economics of climate change : adaptations past and present / edited by Gary D. Libecap and Richard H. Steckel.

Title
  1. The economics of climate change : adaptations past and present / edited by Gary D. Libecap and Richard H. Steckel.
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  1. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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Additional authors
  1. Libecap, Gary D.
  2. Steckel, Richard H. (Richard Hall), 1944-
Description
  1. x, 353 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Uniform title
  1. Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Subject
  1. United States
  2. Ecology > Economic aspects
  3. Klimaänderung
  4. Ecology > Economic aspects > Congresses
  5. Climatic changes > Economic aspects > Congresses
  6. Environnement > États-Unis > Aspect économique > Congrès
  7. Aufsatzsammlung
  8. Environnement > Aspect économique > Congrès
  9. Umweltökonomie
  10. United States > Environmental conditions > Economic aspects > Congresses
  11. Climatic changes > Economic aspects > United States > Congresses
  12. Climat > Changements > Aspect économique > États-Unis > Congrès
  13. Conference papers and proceedings
  14. Climat > Changements > Aspect économique > Congrès
Genre/Form
  1. Aufsatzsammlung.
  2. Conference papers and proceedings.
Contents
  1. Climate change: adaptations in historical perspective / Gary D. Libecap and Richard H. Steckel -- Additive damages, fat-tailed climate dynamics, and uncertain discounting / Martin L. Weitzman -- Modeling the impact of warming in climate change economics / Robert S. Pindyck -- Droughts, floods and financial distress in the United States / John Landon-Lane, Hugh Rockoff, and Richard H. Steckel -- The effects of weather shocks on crop prices in unfettered markets: the United States prior to the farm programs, 1895-1932 / Jonathan Fox, Price V. Fishback, and Paul W. Rhode -- Information and the impact of climate and weather on mortality rates during the Great Depression / Price V. Fishback, Werner Troesken, Trevor Kollmann, Michael Haines, Paul W. Rhode and Melissa Thomasson -- Responding to climatic challenges: lessons from U.S. agricultural development / Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode -- The impact of the 1936 corn-belt drought on american farmers' adoption of hybrid corn / Richard Sutch -- The evolution of heat tolerance of corn: implications for climate change / Michael J. Roberts and Wolfram Schlenker -- Climate variability and water infrastructure: historical experience in the western United States / Zeynep K. Hansen, Gary D. Libecap, and Scott E. Lowe -- Did Frederick Brodie discover the world's first environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal smoke and the rise and fall of the London fog / Karen Clay and Werner Troesken -- Impacts of climate change on residential electricity consumption: evidence from billing data / Anin Aroonruengsawat and Maximilian Auffhammer.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.