INDEX
| “Abrupt Change: Inevitable Surprises” (National Academy of Sciences), 28 | |
| “Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security, An” (Department of Defense), 22, 23 | |
| acid rain, 128 | |
| activities, human. See economic activities, large-scale | |
| Adams, Henry, 52 | |
| Adams, John, 90 | |
| Adam Smith Problem, 91 | |
| Africa, effect of climate changes in, 23, 24 | |
| agreements: Convention on Biodiversity Preservation, 39; Convention on the Law of the Sea, 39; Convention on the Non-Navigable Uses of International Watercourses, 39; Convention to Com- bat Desertification, 39; defining envi- ronmental issues in, 38; differences between industrialized and nonindustri- alized nations, 42; Earth Summit, 39; Framework Convention on Biodiversity Preservation, 42; Framework Conven- tion on Climate Change, 39; general framework conventions in, 38, 39; gov- ernmental protection of own interests in, 39; inability to make substantive contributions to resolution of crisis, 37–41; Kyoto Protocol, 41; Montreal Protocol, 39; nonbinding principles of, 39, 42; precautionary principle in, 60; protocols in, 38; reduction of emis- sion, 38; regimes in, 38; Stockholm Conference, 41; support for, 38 | |
| agriculture: dependence on oil, 75, 76; development of grafting in, 70; domes- tication of wild plants, 69, 70; early organized, 68, 69; in Fertile Crescent, 69–71; mechanization of, 73, 75; muta- tions in, 70; New World, 73; use of fer- tilizers and pesticides, 73 | |
| Akerlof, George, 120 | |
| Allen, Ethan, 88, 89 | |
| Anisimov, Oleg, 26 | |
| Antarctic, global warming and, 14 | |
| Arabian Peninsula, water issues in, 14 | |
| Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, 161, 162 | |
| Arctic National Wildlife Refuge bill, 163 | |
| Aron, Robert, 85 | |
| Arrow, Kenneth, 35, 116 | |
| Arrow-Debreu model, 116 | |
| Asia, effect of climate changes in, 23, 24 | |
| Aubin, Jean-Pierre, 121 | |
| Australia: effect of climate changes in, 23, 33; global warming and, 15 | |
| Australian Institute, 29 |
| Bacon, Francis, 83, 85 | |
| Bak, Per, 54 | |
| Bangladesh: effect of climate changes in, 24, 28; global warming and, 14; sup- port for agreements in, 38 | |
| Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sci- ences, 122, 152, 157 | |
| Bartley, Robert, 149 | |
| Beckett, Margaret, 22 | |
| Berry, Thomas, x | |
| biology: in economic theory, 110; part/whole relationships and, 31, 32 |
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Book title: The Environmental Endgame: Mainstream Economics, Ecological Disaster, and Human Survival.
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Publisher: Rutgers University Press.
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ.
Publication year: 2006.
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