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RECORD NUMBER: 615 OF 1778Main Title | Consumption-Based Approaches in International Climate Policy [electronic resource] / | ||||
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Type | EBOOK | ||||
Author | Lininger, Christian. | ||||
Publisher | Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, | ||||
Year Published | 2015 | ||||
Call Number | QC902.8-903.2 | ||||
ISBN | 9783319159911 | ||||
Subjects | Environmental sciences ; Climatic changes ; Economic policy ; International economics ; Environmental economics | ||||
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Collation | XVI, 249 p. 6 illus. online resource. | ||||
Notes | Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only |
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Contents Notes | Introduction -- Part I: The Economic, Political and Legal Background -- Part II: Theoretical Analysis -- Part III: Implementing Consumption-Based Policy Approaches. This book analyses the potentials and consequences of a change from production-based to consumption-based approaches in international climate policy. With the help of an analytical model, the author investigates the effects of different policy variants on environmental effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, carbon leakage, competitiveness and the global distribution of income. The economic, legal, and political background and the often contradictory findings on consumption-based approaches are reviewed in great detail. In the final chapters, options for practical policy design are developed. The book concludes that a switch to consumption orientation is not a policy tool whereby industrialized countries can unilaterally improve climate policy effectiveness, but should rather be seen as a possible intermediate step on the way to a fully multilateral mitigation strategy. |