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Frank Ackerman
Researcher at Stockholm Environment Institute
Publications - 143
Citations - 6326
Frank Ackerman is an academic researcher from Stockholm Environment Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Stern Review & Global warming. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 143 publications receiving 5899 citations. Previous affiliations of Frank Ackerman include Center for Global Development & Stockholm Environment Institute US Center.
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Assessing "dangerous climate change": required reduction of carbon emissions to protect young people, future generations and nature.
James Hansen,Pushker Kharecha,Pushker Kharecha,Makiko Sato,Valérie Masson-Delmotte,Frank Ackerman,David J. Beerling,Paul J. Hearty,Ove Hoegh-Guldberg,Shi-Ling Hsu,Camille Parmesan,Camille Parmesan,Johan Rockström,Eelco J. Rohling,Eelco J. Rohling,Jeffrey D. Sachs,Pete Smith,Konrad Steffen,Lise Van Susteren,Karina von Schuckmann,James C Zachos +20 more
TL;DR: Climate impacts of global warming is assessed using ongoing observations and paleoclimate data and simple representations of the global carbon cycle and temperature to define emission reductions needed to stabilize climate and avoid potentially disastrous impacts on today’s young people, future generations, and nature.
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Input–output analysis and carbon footprinting: an overview of applications
Jan C. Minx,Thomas Wiedmann,Richard Wood,Glen P. Peters,Manfred Lenzen,Anne Owen,Kate Scott,John Barrett,Klaus Hubacek,Giovanni Baiocchi,Alistair Paul,Elena Dawkins,Julian Briggs,Dabo Guan,Sangwon Suh,Frank Ackerman +15 more
TL;DR: The authors provide an overview of how generalised multi-regional input-output models can be used for carbon footprint applications, focusing on the relevance and suitability of such evidence to inform decision making.
Book
Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing
Frank Ackerman,Lisa Heinzerling +1 more
TL;DR: Ackerman and Heinzerling argue that decisions about health and safety should be made "to reflect not economists' numbers, but democratic values, chosen on moral grounds" as discussed by the authors.
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Pricing the Priceless: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Protection
Frank Ackerman,Lisa Heinzerling +1 more
TL;DR: Costbenefit analysis differs from other analytical approaches in the following respect: it demands that the advantages and disadvantages of a regulatory policy be reduced, as far as possible, to numbers, and then further reduced to dollars and cents as discussed by the authors.
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Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions
Brian Walker,Brian Walker,Scott Barrett,Stephen Polasky,Stephen Polasky,Victor Galaz,Cari Folke,Cari Folke,Gustav Engström,Frank Ackerman,Frank Ackerman,Kenneth J. Arrow,Stephen R. Carpenter,Kanchan Chopra,Gretchen C. Daily,Paul R. Ehrlich,Terry P. Hughes,Nils Kautsky,Simon A. Levin,Karl-Göran Mäler,Karl-Göran Mäler,Jason F. Shogren,Jeffrey R. Vincent,Tasos Xepapadeas,Aart de Zeeuw,Aart de Zeeuw +25 more
TL;DR: The core of the problem is inducing cooperation in situations where individuals and nations will collectively gain if all cooperate, but each faces the temptation to take a free ride on the cooperation of others.