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The treatment of climate change is somewhat different from the other categories of damages that have been assessed. One reason is the extreme uncertainty surrounding the figures. Although the numbers presented here have relatively small ranges, there are researchers who take the view that the values are extremely high, and others who argue that we really do not know what the damages will be. The second is that we are dealing with impacts far into the future. Hence valuation methods have to look at long time periods. Third, although damages are global, and much of the research has been on estimating global damages, our concern is at the national level. Hence we need to look at the factors that affect local environments more closely.
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Markandya, A., Pavan, M. (1999). Global Warming. In: Markandya, A., Pavan, M. (eds) Green Accounting in Europe — Four case studies. Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) Series on Economics, Energy and Environment, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4597-8_9
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