The economics of climate change  adaptations past and present /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Gary D. Libecap and Richard H. Steckel. 
 - Chicago :  University of Chicago Press,  2011. 
 - x, 353 p. :  ill., maps. 
 - National Bureau of Economic Research conference report .
 - National Bureau of Economic Research conference report. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Climate change: adaptations in historical perspective / Gary D. Libecap and Richard H. Steckel -- Additive damages, fat-tailed climate dynamics, and uncertain discounting / Martin L. Weitzman -- Modeling the impact of warming in climate change economics / Robert S. Pindyck -- Droughts, floods and financial distress in the United States / John Landon-Lane, Hugh Rockoff, and Richard H. Steckel -- The effects of weather shocks on crop prices in unfettered markets: the United States prior to the farm programs, 1895-1932 / Jonathan Fox, Price V. Fishback, and Paul W. Rhode -- Information and the impact of climate and weather on mortality rates during the Great Depression / Price V. Fishback, Werner Troesken, Trevor Kollmann, Michael Haines, Paul W. Rhode and Melissa Thomasson -- Responding to climatic challenges: lessons from U.S. agricultural development / Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode -- The impact of the 1936 corn-belt drought on american farmers' adoption of hybrid corn / Richard Sutch -- The evolution of heat tolerance of corn: implications for climate change / Michael J. Roberts and Wolfram Schlenker -- Climate variability and water infrastructure: historical experience in the western United States / Zeynep K. Hansen, Gary D. Libecap, and Scott E. Lowe -- Did Frederick Brodie discover the world's first environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal smoke and the rise and fall of the London fog / Karen Clay and Werner Troesken -- Impacts of climate change on residential electricity consumption: evidence from billing data / Anin Aroonruengsawat and Maximilian Auffhammer. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226479903 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Climatic changes--Economic aspects--Congresses.<br/>Climatic changes--Economic aspects--United States--Congresses.<br/>Ecology--Economic aspects--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Environmental conditions--Economic aspects--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC79.E5  / E2778 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>333.71/4