ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MEASURES OF BIOLOGIC AND CLIMATIC CHANGE. CIAP MONOGRAPH 6

The Climatic Impact Assessment Program (CIAP) of the U.S. Department of Transportation is charged with the 'assessment' of the impact of future aircraft fleets and other vehicles operating in, or transiting through the stratosphere. CIAP monograph 6 addresses and conceptualizes socio-economic considerations for evaluating the terrestrial impact of, and potential necessary controls for, pollutant emissions in the stratosphere. It is best viewed as an exercise that utilizes methods developed in cost-benefit analyses and concentrates its attention on the conceptualization and measurement of the environmental costs associated with stratospheric travel. A set of parametric changes in particular climatic variables is considered. The results reported in this monograph are not considered definitive, because the monograph as a whole attacks a new problem, and one of a scale not confronted by economics or other social sciences in the past. However, one central fact, essentially independent of the investigative methods used, does emerge: seemingly small changes in mankind's climatic environment may give rise to subtle, diverse, but significant economic impacts and that these impacts, rather than being evenly spread across the economy, are likely to be specialized by activity, by location, or by both within nations and among nations. Discussed is the impact on fuel consumption, agriculture, forestry, materials degradation and wealth.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also PB-247 726.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute for Defense Analyses

  Science and Technology Division
  Arlington, VA  United States  22202

  Department of Transportation

  Climatic Impact Assessment Program, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1975-9

Media Info

• Pagination: 1193 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Agricultural economics; Agriculture; Air pollution; Climate change; Corn; Decision making; Economic impacts; Electric power; Electric power supply; Energy consumption; Fuel consumption; Impacts; Mathematical models; Persons by socioeconomic levels; Policy; Political science; Probability theory; Social factors; Social impacts; Stratosphere; Weather and climate; Wheat
• Old TRIS Terms: Government policies; Strategy
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Economics; Energy; Environment; Policy; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00093627
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rpt., DOT/TST-75-55-Mono-6
• Contract Numbers: DOT-OS-30057
• Files: NTIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Feb 4 1976 12:00AM