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Extensions and alternatives to climate change impact valuation: on the critique of IPCC Working Group III's impact estimates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

SAMUEL FANKHAUSER ,
RICHARD S.J. TOL  and
DAVID W. PEARCE
SAMUEL FANKHAUSER
Affiliation:
Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT and University of East Anglia, UK
RICHARD S.J. TOL
Affiliation:
Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1115, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
DAVID W. PEARCE
Affiliation:
Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT and University of East Anglia, UK
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Abstract

The paper discusses valuation issues in the context of climate change impact estimation. Issues addressed are aggregation of damage costs over diverse regions (particularly equity-weighting), differentiation of per-unit values, willingness to pay versus willingness to accept compensation as a basis for valuation, and accountability for impacts. Numerical illustrations show that the damage cost estimates are quite sensitive to the assumptions made on these issues.

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Policy Options
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Environment and Development Economics , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 59 - 81
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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