Global warming and the American economy : a regional assessment of climate change impacts / edited by Robert Mendelsohn.
Series: New horizons in environmental economics ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., 2001Description: xiv, 209 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1840645938
- 9781840645934
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001 -- Regional disparities
- Climatic changes -- United States
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981- -- Regional disparities
- Climat -- Changements -- �Etats-Unis
- �Etats-Unis -- Conditions �economiques -- 1981-2001 -- Disparit�es r�egionales
- Climatic changes
- Economic history -- Regional disparities
- United States
- 1981-2001
- 330.973/092 21
- HC106.8 .G594 2001
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"In association with the Electric Power Research Institute."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Agriculture : agronomic-economic analysis / Richard M. Adams and Bruce A. McCarl -- Agriculture : a Ricardian analysis / Robert Mendelsohn -- Timber : ecological-economic analysis / Brent Sohngen and Robert Mendelsohn -- Water resources : economic analysis / Brian Hurd and Megan Harrod -- Coastal structures : dynamic economic modeling / James E. Neumann and Nicholas D. Livesay -- Energy : cross-sectional analysis / Robert Mendelsohn -- Adaptation / Robert Mendelsohn -- Synthesis / Robert Mendelsohn and Joel B. Smith.
The impact of climate change on the United States is explored in this collection. The hypothesis of the study is that warming would be beneficial to the economies of the colder regions but harmful to the economies of the warmer more southern regions.