Economic risks of climate change: an American prospectus

Climate change threatens the economy of the US in myriad ways, including increased flooding and storm damage, altered crop yields, lost labour productivity, higher crime, reshaped public-health patterns and strained energy systems.

Combining the latest climate models, state-of-the-art econometric research on human responses to climate, and cutting-edge private-sector risk-assessment tools, this volume crafts a game-changing profile of the economic risks of climate change for the US.