TY - BOOK ID - 4864431 TI - Micro-behavioral economics of global warming : modeling adaptation strategies in agricultural and natural resource enterprises PY - 2015 SN - 9783319159461 3319159453 9783319159454 3319159461 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Environment. KW - Climate Change. KW - Ecosystems. KW - Sustainable Development. KW - Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts. KW - Environmental sciences. KW - Endangered ecosystems. KW - Climatic changes. KW - Sustainable development. KW - Sciences de l'environnement KW - Ecosystèmes menacés KW - Climat KW - Développement durable KW - Changements KW - Earth & Environmental Sciences KW - Meteorology & Climatology KW - Economic development KW - Environmental aspects. KW - Eco-development KW - Ecodevelopment KW - Climate change. KW - Development, Sustainable KW - Ecologically sustainable development KW - Economic development, Sustainable KW - Economic sustainability KW - ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) KW - Smart growth KW - Sustainable development KW - Sustainable economic development KW - Threatened ecosystems KW - Biotic communities KW - Nature conservation KW - Changes, Climatic KW - Changes in climate KW - Climate change KW - Climate change science KW - Climate changes KW - Climate variations KW - Climatic change KW - Climatic changes KW - Climatic fluctuations KW - Climatic variations KW - Global climate changes KW - Global climatic changes KW - Climatology KW - Climate change mitigation KW - Teleconnections (Climatology) KW - Environmental aspects KW - Biocenoses KW - Biocoenoses KW - Biogeoecology KW - Biological communities KW - Biomes KW - Biotic community ecology KW - Communities, Biotic KW - Community ecology, Biotic KW - Ecological communities KW - Ecosystems KW - Natural communities KW - Ecology KW - Population biology KW - Global environmental change UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4864431 AB - This book presents a foundation for studying the micro-behavioral economics of global warming. The author develops an empirical model, named the Geographically-scaled Microeconometric model of Adapting Portfolios (G-MAP) in response to climatic changes and risks. The G-MAP model is applied to observed decisions of agricultural and natural resource enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa and South America. The author describes the five applications of the model: the G-MAP animal species, the G-MAP agricultural systems, the G-MAP natural resource enterprises, the G-MAP climate risk, and the G-MAP public adaptations. The micro-behavioral economics of global warming and the G-MAP models are evaluated against the three alternative modeling traditions:  The first is the Agro-Economic Models (AEM) based on crop simulations of selected crops under elevated CO2 conditions; The second is a family of econometric studies of grain yield changes caused by yearly weather fluctuations; The third is the Agro-Ecological Zone (AEZ) method hinged crucially on the AEZ classifications of ecosystems. The author offers a refreshing look at the traditional economics of global warming, unraveling a broad array of adaptation strategies adopted by managers of agricultural and natural resource enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa and South America. The book demonstrates that the micro-behavioral economics dynamically integrates multiple disciplines in a cohesive way - including economics, psychology, climate science, ecosystem studies, agronomy, and animal science - into the decision-making framework of an individual agent. The G-MAP models provide a guide map of adaptation strategies for the humanity’s enduring journey of battling global climatic changes in this century and beyond. ER -