Economic Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts

Executive Summary.- Introduction.- Part I: Cost on Opportunities of Climate Change at the European Level.- Part II: Evaluation at the National Level: Methodological Issues.- Part III: Fields of Impact.- Part IV: Aggregate Evaluation.

Karl W. Steininger is a Professor at the Department of Economics and head of the socioeconomic research group at the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, both at the University of Graz, Austria. He graduated in Economics and Computer Science at the University of Vienna and UC Berkeley, and specialized in environmental and climate economics, and in international trade. Previously he held positions in the World Bank (Environment Department), the DIW Berlin and at the University of Trieste, Italy.

Martin König is a senior scientist at the Environment Agency Austria. He has coordinated activities on setting up national CCIVA research programs, initialized and coordinated EU projects for better cooperation of national climate research programs throughout Europe (CIRCLE) and is currently involved in adaptation projects providing background, instruments and DSS for different sectors and scales - from regional via national to European.

Birgit Bednar-Friedl is an Associate Professor at Department of Economics, University of Graz, and Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change. Her current research interests span the economics of climate change, resource and energy economics, and international economics. Her most recent research covers several aspects of unilateral and multilateral climate policy, international burden sharing in climate policy, the macroeconomic costs of climate change impacts on various fields such as agriculture, electricity, tourism and transport.

Lukas Kranzl is a senior researcher at the Institute of Energy Systems and Electrical Drives at Vienna University of Technology. He studied mechanical engineering and wrote his PhD thesis about the macro-economic impact of bioenergy systems. His research activities focus on future perspectives of sustainable energy systems with a focus on building related energy demand and supply, scenario development and

"This book presents a carefully conducted research with robust results in detail and with sufficient support and discussion from the literature. ... this book is very useful research about economic evaluation of climate change impacts development of a cross-sectoral framework and valuable exemplary analysis applied in Austria." (Meltem Ucal, Environment, Development and Sustainability, Vol. 20, 2018)