Climate Change Adaptation: Lessons from Urban Economics

Paul Romer serves as the Director of NYU's Marron Institute of Urban Management.   I am a Visiting Scholar at this Institute and try to show up there twice a year.   The Institute has just posted my new Working Paper titled: Climate Change Adaptation: Lessons from Urban Economics.    This paper builds on my 2010 Climatopolis book by tracing out my current thinking on the key issue of how cities help us to adapt to climate change.  I have found that a growing number of researchers are starting to work on this topic and I think that I've nudged many of them to think about how Sherwin Rosen's hedonic model helps to better understand this issue.