“Zili Yang's book provides a clear explanation of important analytical tools that are crucial to understanding and analyzing a country's incentive to control climate change. The book illustrates how game theory can be used to quantify the benefits of cooperation and to identify the strategies that could be implemented to enhance the effectiveness of a climate treaty. Yang carefully describes innovative methodologies and their applications to the study of climate change policy. This book should be used by all students and researchers who believe that a careful analysis of participation incentives is crucial to comprehend the future evolution of climate policy regimes.”—Carlo Carro, Department of Economics, University of Venice
Zili Yang has produced an impressive contribution to an under-studied but very important field—the strategic dimensions of climate change.
Charles D. Kolstad, Department of Economics and Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara
As a co-author of RICE in 1996, Zili Yang is recognized as a pioneer in empirical multiregional climate modeling. One of the main virtues of his work is that it has allowed importing game theoretic concepts in the economics and politics of climate science. In this book he presents the full background of the model, as well as extended developments since his early contribution. Thanks to the detailed presentation of his methodologies, the author definitely induces the reader to compare his results to other ones and thereby learn about fundamental aspects of how mankind might, or should, meet the challenge of climate change.
Henry Tulkens, Professor of Economics and Public Finance, CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
As a coauthor of RICE in 1996, Zili Yang is recognized as a pioneer in empirical multiregional climate modeling. One of the main virtues of his work is that it has allowed importing game-theoretic concepts in the economics and politics of climate science. In this book he presents the full background of the model, as well as extended developments since his early contribution. Thanks to the detailed presentation of his methodologies, the author definitely induces the reader to compare his results to other ones and thereby learn about fundamental aspects of how mankind might, or should, meet the challenge of climate change.
Henry Tulkens, Professor of Economics and Public Finance, CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium