Download or read book Three Essays on the Political Economy of Climate Change written by Jakub Rybicki and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Climate Change and Common Sense written by Thomas C. Schelling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each chapter represents a contribution to the literature on the political economy of climate change.

Download or read book Climate Change and Common Sense written by Robert W. Hahn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is widespread agreement that climate change is a serious problem. If we fail to regulate greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming, or use alternative strategies for addressing the problem, the damages could be significant, and perhaps catastrophic. After several international meetings in which nation-states have tried unsuccessfully to address the climate change problem, there is a sense of frustration and urgency: frustration at the slow pace at which countries are moving toward an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; urgency because of the growing evidence that climate change is a serious problem that should be addressed globally and quickly. This book takes a close look at the fundamental political and economic processes driving climate change policy. It identifies institutional arrangements and policies that are needed to design more effective climate change policy. It also examines ethical and distributional arguments that are critical in understanding and framing the climate debate. The book is built around a conference honouring Tom Schelling that took place at the Sustainable Consumption Institute at The University of Manchester. Each chapter represents a significant contribution to the literature on the political economy of climate change.

Download or read book Essays in the Economics and Political Economy of Climate Change written by Kyle Chuan Meng and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empirical research on anthropogenic climate change is constrained by two fundamental facts: climate change is unprecedented and its impacts occur gradually. This implies that neither evidence from recent history nor the near future can directly inform policy. Under such circumstances, empirical research must find historical analogs capturing particular features of future climate change and policy, which, combined with theory, can provide credible out-of-sample predictions. The four papers in this dissertation use new data settings and methodologies to causally examine central questions related to climate change mitigation, adaptation, innovation, and impacts. Results from these papers can help inform future climate-related research and various issues regarding the political economy of climate policy.

Download or read book Essays on the Political Economy of Climate Change written by Byeong-Hak Choe and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation focuses on the political economy of the environment, particularly for climate change. Specifically, I analyze the consequence of climate politics on climate change regulations at national and global levels. The first chapter, "Climate Finance under Conflicts and Renegotiations: A Dynamic Contract Approach," proposes a model of financing two types of climate change projects---adaptation and mitigation---in developing countries. The model in the first chapter considers climate funds (e.g. the Green Climate Fund) as the financial mechanism to provide funding to developing countries. The model demonstrates the consequences of conflicts and renegotiations between rich and poor countries on long-term climate funding dynamics. The second chapter, "Social Media Campaigns, Lobbying and Legislation: Evidence from #climatechange/#globalwarming and Energy Lobbies," estimates the competition between social media campaigns and fossil fuel lobbying on climate change legislation in the U.S., showing that social media contributes to political polarization on climate-unfriendly bills on which the fossil fuel industry exerted the lobbying pressure during the 113-115th U.S. Congresses (2013-2018).

Download or read book Low Carbon for the Long Term written by Jared J. Finnegan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on China s Political Economy written by Chiara Piovani and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Political Economy of Climate Change Adaptation written by Benjamin K. Sovacool and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on concepts in political economy, political ecology, justice theory, and critical development studies, the authors offer the first comprehensive, systematic exploration of the ways in which adaptation projects can produce unintended, undesirable results. This work is on the Global Policy: Next Generation list of six key books for understanding the politics of global climate change.

Download or read book Essays on the Political Economy of Urbanization and Climate Change written by Pierre Magontier and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The world has been urbanizing at an incredible pace during the last century. Meanwhile, the global rise in temperatures has led to the increased probabilities of gradual and sudden natural disasters, putting large shares of developed lands at risk. While the benefits from agglomeration economies are well documented, less is known on how local stakeholders make land-use decisions in the context of climate change. Understanding how economic agents in charge of land conversion cope with climate threats while trying to preserve urban opportunities is a paramount challenge for the next decades. This dissertation aims to shed some light on a few of the mechanisms at play, looking at spaces threatened by diverse environmental catastrophes.In this regard, the second chapter of this thesis, 'The Political Economy of Coastal Destruction,' studies the impact of political cooperation on coastal development choices, made in Spain between 1979 and 2015. We argue that political cooperation between municipal neighbors is fostered by local political alignment. We rely on a fuzzy regression discontinuity design in close elections to assess the impact of political homophily on coastal development. We show that coastal municipalities who decide on coastal development in isolation may overdevelop as they fail to internalize the positive amenity spillovers caused by land preservation. Within the first-kilometer fringe, local governments sharing their neighbors' ideology develop 63% less than otherwise similar but politically isolated governments. This effect vanishes as we consider farther distances from the coastline, suggesting that amenity spillovers are an essential driver of this result.While overdevelopment induces higher exposure to hazards when locating in disaster-prone areas, appropriate preparation can mitigate the chances of suffering from a natural catastrophe. However, mitigation measures do not only reduce but also signal the inherent risks of a location. I focus on the trade-off between risk reduction and risk disclosure in the third chapter of my thesis, 'Does media coverage affect government preparation for natural disasters?'. I demonstrate that in the absence of information circulating about local dangers, local governments, who seek to protect property values in their jurisdiction, have an incentive not to prepare to avoid signaling the latent risks to otherwise uninformed investors. To test this hypothesis, I construct an exogenous measure of newspaper coverage of storms, which is a good predictor of the number of newspaper articles published about these events. I show that conditional on being hit by a storm, a one-standard-deviation increase in my Coverage measure leads to a 54% increase in the number of mitigation projects implemented in a ZIP code. This result is primarily driven by neighborhoods with high pre-treatment levels of vacant houses, renters, and housing-units owned with a mortgage, suggesting that non-resident investors are the firsts to respond to the information shock.Considering that real estate interests could capture governments' preparation incentives, I questioned whether individuals learn from past disasters when making a development decision. In the last paper of this thesis, 'The Dynamics of Land Development around Flood Zones,' we study the land conversion response to an inundation. Exploiting a rich dataset on historical flood records in Spain, we show that new development drops at the municipal level by -14.64% in the year following an inundation, and peaks down at -26% in the sixth year. The decrease in land conversion is, on average, permanent. This outcome is primarily driven by municipalities with higher historical flood frequencies, and by floods occurring after the central government regulated constructions around flood zones, in 1986. New development neither occurs farther away from flood zones nor on the higher ground. These results could be consistent with several underlying mechanisms. In particular, if individuals do account for disaster history when making a development decision, it is puzzling to observe they prefer not to build rather than building away from the acknowledged source of dangers. We speculate that a misinterpretation of the risks caused by an availability bias, or an aversion to amenity losses, could explain this response." -- TDX.

Download or read book Essays on the Political Economy of the Environment written by Luke Coyne Sanford and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trying to study environmental politics is like trying to juggle flaming bowling pins while riding a unicycle--it requires the acrobat to be good enough at both juggling (political science) and unicycle riding (environmental science) that they do not immediately crash and burn. My attempt to do so is below. In my dissertation I take three different approaches to answering questions which can contribute to our understanding of the interface between the political forces and the environment. In the first I explore electoral deforestation cycles, where deforestation rates are higher surrounding elections in young democracies.These cycles are most pronounced when the elections are highly competitive, occur in young or weakly institutionalized democracies, and are held in majoritarian systems where politicians can effectively target voters with geographic policies. Here, a set of rules designed to expand political power have the unintended consequence of increased environmental destruction. In the second paper we develop a method for discovering and testing influential concepts and phrases in text. We adapt a neural network with recurrent and convolutional layers designed to make the network's decisions more interpretable to a different task--to identify phrases and concepts which are highly persuasive to a reader. We then apply this to climate change communication to try to uncover some of the most persuasive concepts both for and against climate change mitigation. In it I evaluate the effects of receiving a formal land title on the behavior of plot owners--usually smallholder farmers--using satellite imagery and machine learning. This case speaks to a substantive question that drives millions of dollars in aid annually--how can we reduce barriers to increasing productivity for the world's poorest and least food secure regions. It also demonstrates new methods which use existing data to more effectively evaluate future (or past!) interventions. Specifically, I evaluate whether having the boundaries of one's plot officially demarcated and recorded and the ability to obtain a legal title increase the probability that part of the plot will be converted from annual to perennial crops, whether there will be cropland expansion in the plot, and whether the built-up area in these plots increases. I also test whether land titling results in land-sparing in surrounding areas by increasing productivity on the intensive margin. To do this I develop a set of methods for using satellite imagery to measure changes in land cover based on sub-annual variations in surface reflectance of different wavelengths of light. This allows me to observe outcomes at an annual scale and detect the proportion of plots under different types of landcover. Evidence from a pilot area of analysis shows increased conversion from natural forest to cropland as a result of land formalization.

Download or read book Climate Change Economic political and social strategies to combat the root causes written by Alexander Ritter and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Economy - Environment economics, grade: 2,3, University Witten/Herdecke (Wirtschaftswissenschaften), course: Ecological Economics, language: English, abstract: A man-made exacerbation of climate change has been widely accepted by the scientific community and calls for a paradigm shift in economic thinking. The new imperative demands for the global economy to achieve a factor-10 reduction of carbon dioxide within the next four decades. This undoubtedly calls for radical changes in the political, the economic as well as in the societal dimension. This essay reviews the different strategies that have been brought forwards by academics and activists aimed at combating global warming and assessing the effectiveness and legitimacy of such proposals.

Download or read book The Political Economy of Climate Change Science written by Roger Bate and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on International Non market Strategy and the Political Economy of Environmental Regulation written by Sanjay Patnaik and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the interaction of companies with their non-market environment in an international context. It specifically focuses on the political economy of newly introduced climate change regulations and how these policies affect firm strategy. The empirical setting of my work is the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), the largest active cap-and-trade program in the world. Introduced in 2005, the EU ETS has established a substantial market for emissions allowances by requiring companies across the EU to internalize the costs of emitting greenhouse gases. The three chapters of my dissertation are empirical studies that use novel data from the EU ETS. In the first chapter, I show through the analysis of a panel dataset of companies in the Iron and Steel sector in the EU that multinational firms are more likely to exploit arbitrage opportunities in the EU ETS. My results also indicate that multinational firms can capture more value from the EU ETS than their domestic peers. In the second chapter, we examine the sources of non-market performance differences among firms in the EU. Our findings suggest that firm-affiliation is a strong determinant of the variation in non-market performance across industrial plants in the EU ETS. We also show that industry effects are important for absolute non-market performance measures and that country effects are not as strong as firm effects. In my third dissertation chapter, I examine the political economy of the distribution of emissions allowances within the EU ETS. In my analysis of a panel dataset of industrial sectors in the EU, I find that country-specific institutional and political characteristics affect the allocation of emissions allowances to industrial sectors in the EU ETS. My dissertation is embedded within prior literature in international economics, strategy and political economy.

Download or read book Reflections on Progress written by Kemal Dervis and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now, more than ever, the world needs growth-oriented and socially inclusive policymaking. Is the world giving up on the promise of ever-greater prosperity for all, on functioning democratic institutions, and on long-term peace? Is the special set of circumstances that led to the recent rapid growth in emerging markets unlikely to be present in the future? Will the second decade of the twenty first century end with “secular stagnation”? Does the rise of authoritarianism, populism, and fanatic nihilism—all experienced over the last few years—threaten to unravel what has been built painstakingly since the catastrophe of World War II? Kemal Dervis addresses these and similar questions in this thought-provoking series of essays written for Project Syndicate from 2011 to 2015. The essays are organized in three sections: global economic interdependence, inequality and the political economy of reform, and the specific challenge of Europe. The common theme is the need for growth-oriented and socially inclusive policymaking in an interdependent world. These kinds of policies offer the potential for another wave of unprecedented human progress aided by breathtaking new technologies. However, a huge and destabilizing disruption is possible if policymaking is not globally cooperative and is not focused on inclusion and greater equity. These essays synthesize the experience and analysis of a scholar and policymaker with national, regional, and international experience at the highest levels. Dervis exhibits a passion for combining strongly held values with political feasibility.

Download or read book Essays on the Political Economy of Democracy written by Edgard Dewitte (économiste).) and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis seeks to advance our understanding of individual political behavior in Western democracies, through the construction and quantitative analysis of large historical databases.The first chapter examines the historical determinants of climate change beliefs in the United States. It shows that the progressive building, during the 19th and 20th centuries, of economic identities related to the oil & gas industry, today contributes to persistent levels of climate change denial.The second chapter investigates the drivers of individual political engagement, through the case of small campaign contributions. Building the first systematic database on the subject, we show that, during the 2006-2020 period in the U.S., small donors are on average more representative of the voting-age population than large donors, and that their behaviors differ significantly: they contribute to more visible, out-of-state candidates, and are more sensitive to campaign advertisements.The third chapter studies how campaign spending has influenced voting decisions over the last 160 years in the U.K.. It shows that, although the amounts spent on candidates' campaigns have decreased dramatically since 1880, the correlation between these expenditures and the votes they received has in fact increased, and that this is in part linked to the introduction of new information technologies (such as local radio and the Internet) and to changes in candidates' campaign strategies.

Download or read book Life Adrift written by Andrew Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the expanding debate on the influence of climate change on human migration.

Download or read book Economics for People and the Planet written by James Boyce and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economics for People and the Planet, a collection of essays by James K. Boyce on the environment, inequality and the economy, argues that there is not an inexorable trade-off between advancing human well-being and having a clean and safe environment. The goal of economic policy should be to grow the good things that improve our well-being and environmental quality and reduce the bad things that harm humans and nature. To reorient the economy for these ends, we will need to achieve a more egalitarian distribution of wealth and power. Global climate change – the most pressing environmental challenge of our time – adds urgency to this task and creates historic opportunities for moving towards a greener future.