Description:
This volume deals with the multifaceted and interdependent impacts of climate change on society from the perspective of a broad set of disciplines. The main objective of the book is to assess public and private cost of climate change as far as quantifiable, while taking into account the high degree of uncertainty. It offers new insights for the economic assessment of a broad range of climate change impact chains at a national scale. The framework presented in the book allows consistent evaluation including mutual interdependencies and macroeconomic feedback. This book develops a toolbox that can be used across the many areas of climate impact and applies it to one particular country: Austria.
Review Quotes: "This book presents a carefully conducted research with robust results in detail and with sufficient support and discussion from the literature. ... this book is very useful research about economic evaluation of climate change impacts development of a cross-sectoral framework and valuable exemplary analysis applied in Austria." (Meltem Ucal, Environment, Development and Sustainability, Vol. 20, 2018)