气候变化潜在影响的经济建模结构:将风险的严重低估嫁接到本已狭窄的科学模型上

The Structure of Economic Modeling of the Potential Impacts of Climate Change: Grafting Gross Underestimation of Risk onto Already Narrow Science Models

Journal of Economic Literature · 2013
被引 534 · 同刊同年前 7%
人大 A-ABS 4

中文导读

指出科学模型因忽略难以精确捕捉的关键因素而低估气候变化风险,经济模型更因增长、损害和风险假设而进一步低估,呼吁新一代模型关注生命和生计,包括大规模移民和冲突风险。

Abstract

Scientists describe the scale of the risks from unmanaged climate change as potentially immense. However, the scientific models, because they omit key factors that are hard to capture precisely, appear to substantially underestimate these risks. Many economic models add further gross underassessment of risk because the assumptions built into the economic modeling on growth, damages and risks, come close to assuming directly that the impacts and costs will be modest and close to excluding the possibility of catastrophic outcomes. A new generation of models is needed in all three of climate science, impact and economics with a still stronger focus on lives and livelihoods, including the risks of large-scale migration and conflicts.

气候变化风险低估经济建模缺陷灾难性后果排除模型代际更新