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The Asian climate change issues in the era of the global knowledge economy: welfare economic framework for analyzing the post-Rio and post-Kyoto developments

This paper reviews the emerging and enduring policy issues arising from climate change and its ensuing economic consequences in Asia. There is now little doubt that one of the most important environmental management issues facing, not only Asia but the world, is climate change. In recognition of the...

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Main Authors: Sardar,, M.N.Islam ,, Clarke, Matthew
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Published: Environmental Management Society, Malaysia 2003
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2185/
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spelling my-ukm.journal.21852011-07-05T04:44:58Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2185/ The Asian climate change issues in the era of the global knowledge economy: welfare economic framework for analyzing the post-Rio and post-Kyoto developments Sardar, M.N.Islam , Clarke, Matthew This paper reviews the emerging and enduring policy issues arising from climate change and its ensuing economic consequences in Asia. There is now little doubt that one of the most important environmental management issues facing, not only Asia but the world, is climate change. In recognition of the seriousness of this threat, the global community has responded with international conferences and agreements, such as the Rio Earth Summit and the Kyoto Protocol. On the economic front, the emergence of the global knowledge economy is an influential phenomenon providing a new set of institutional frameworks for the operation of global and national economies which have implicit effects and management of global climate change. Within this paper, a welfare economic framework is adapted to analyze and evaluate the issues of climate change and to comment on policy options. Effective post-Rio and post-Kyoto responses depend on fully understanding how the Asian economy is currently developing and the current GHG emissions level, all analyzed within a welfare economics frameworks. A set of policy responses is therefore presented Environmental Management Society, Malaysia 2003 Article PeerReviewed Sardar, and M.N.Islam , and Clarke, Matthew (2003) The Asian climate change issues in the era of the global knowledge economy: welfare economic framework for analyzing the post-Rio and post-Kyoto developments. Malaysian Journal of Environmental Management, 4 . pp. 3-19. ISSN 1511-7855 http://www.ems-malaysia.org/mjem/index.html
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description This paper reviews the emerging and enduring policy issues arising from climate change and its ensuing economic consequences in Asia. There is now little doubt that one of the most important environmental management issues facing, not only Asia but the world, is climate change. In recognition of the seriousness of this threat, the global community has responded with international conferences and agreements, such as the Rio Earth Summit and the Kyoto Protocol. On the economic front, the emergence of the global knowledge economy is an influential phenomenon providing a new set of institutional frameworks for the operation of global and national economies which have implicit effects and management of global climate change. Within this paper, a welfare economic framework is adapted to analyze and evaluate the issues of climate change and to comment on policy options. Effective post-Rio and post-Kyoto responses depend on fully understanding how the Asian economy is currently developing and the current GHG emissions level, all analyzed within a welfare economics frameworks. A set of policy responses is therefore presented
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author Sardar,
M.N.Islam ,
Clarke, Matthew
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M.N.Islam ,
Clarke, Matthew
The Asian climate change issues in the era of the global knowledge economy: welfare economic framework for analyzing the post-Rio and post-Kyoto developments
author_facet Sardar,
M.N.Islam ,
Clarke, Matthew
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title The Asian climate change issues in the era of the global knowledge economy: welfare economic framework for analyzing the post-Rio and post-Kyoto developments
title_short The Asian climate change issues in the era of the global knowledge economy: welfare economic framework for analyzing the post-Rio and post-Kyoto developments
title_full The Asian climate change issues in the era of the global knowledge economy: welfare economic framework for analyzing the post-Rio and post-Kyoto developments
title_fullStr The Asian climate change issues in the era of the global knowledge economy: welfare economic framework for analyzing the post-Rio and post-Kyoto developments
title_full_unstemmed The Asian climate change issues in the era of the global knowledge economy: welfare economic framework for analyzing the post-Rio and post-Kyoto developments
title_sort asian climate change issues in the era of the global knowledge economy: welfare economic framework for analyzing the post-rio and post-kyoto developments
publisher Environmental Management Society, Malaysia
publishDate 2003
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