edited michael toman ujjayant chakravorty (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction/Michael A. Toman. I. Economic drivers of greenhouse gas emissions: 2. Future energy trends and greenhouse gas emissions/P.R. Shukla, Debyani Ghosh, and Amit Garg. 3. Developmental sustainability implications of the economic reforms in the energy sector/Ramprasad Sengupta and Manish Gupta. 4. Economic policy reforms: implications for energy consumption/Subir Gokarn. 5. Some issues in greenhouse gas emissions from the informal energy-using sector/Gautam Gupta. 6. Endogenous substitution of energy resources: theory and application to the energy sector/Ujjayant Chakravorty. II. Options for greenhouse gas mitigation: 7. Policies for Carbon abatement in the presence of regulatory distortions: the electricity-generating sector/Madhu Khanna. 8. Carbon sequestration in forests: potential and incremental costs/Haripriya S. Gundimeda. 9. Evaluating greenhouse gas control strategies using multicriteria approaches/R. Ramanathan. 10. Energy economy model applications: long-term greenhouse gas emissions trends and mitigation costs/P.R. Shukla and Ashish Rana. 11. Incentive-based approaches for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions: issues and prospects/Shreekant Gupta. III. International climate policy: 12. A noncooperative theory of emissions-cap determination/Sudhir A. Shah. 13. The Kyoto protocol and developing countries: strategy and equity issues/Parkash Chander. 14. Allocation of greenhouse gas emissions: an example of short-term and long-term criteria/Sujata Gupta and Preety M. Bhandari. 15. The clean development mechanism: issues and options/P.G. Babu, K.S. Kavi Kumar, and Bibhas Saha. IV. Conclusions: 16. India's efforts to minimize greenhouse gas emissions: policies, measures, and institutions/Jyoti Parikh. 17. Global climate change: Indian perspective revisited and restated/R.K. Pachauri. Afterword. Climate change impacts on India/K.S. Kavi Kumar. Index. "With a population of more than one billion and an economy that is undergoing substantial restructuring after years of stagnation, India has a pivotal role to play in the debate on climate change policy. This comprehensive set of essays addresses climate change economics and policy issues from India's perspective.