Climate Policy and Nonrenewable Resources : The Green Paradox and Beyond.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780262319836
- 363.738/74561
- QC903 .C568 2014
Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- 1 The Green Paradox: A Mirage? -- I Extraction Costs -- 2 Supply-Side Climate Policy and the Green Paradox -- 3 The Green Paradox as a Supply Phenomenon -- II Technology, Innovation, and Substitutability -- 4 The Green Paradox under Imperfect Substitutability between Clean and Dirty Fuels -- 5 Fossil Fuels, Backstop Technologies, and Imperfect Substitution -- 6 Innovation and the Green Paradox -- 7 Resource Extraction and Backstop Technologies in General Equilibrium -- III Timing, Announcement Effects, and Time Consistency -- 8 Does a Future Rise in Carbon Taxes Harm the Climate? -- 9 The Impacts of Announcing and Delaying Green Policies -- 10 Going Full Circle: Demand-Side Constraints to the Green Paradox -- IV Empirics and Quantification -- 11 Quantifying Intertemporal Emissions Leakage -- Contributors -- Index.
A detailed and rigorous analysis of the effect of climate policies on climate change that questions the empirical and theoretical support for the "green paradox.".
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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