Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Why adaptation? -- Microeconomics perspective on climate science prediction -- Daily quality of life -- Protecting the poor -- Upgrading public infrastructure -- Will climate change threaten economic productivity? -- Protecting urban real estate -- Market for big data facilitates adaptation -- Reimagining the real estate sector -- Reimagining laws and regulations to facilitate adaptation -- Innovation in agricultural production -- Globalization and international trade facilitate adaptation -- Conclusion: Human capital fuels adaptation.

It is all but certain the next century will be hotter than any we've experienced before. Even if we get serious about fighting climate change, it's clear that we will need to adapt to the changes already underway in our environment. This book considers how individual economic choices in response to climate change will transform the larger economy. Using the tools of microeconomics, Matthew E. Kahn explores how decisions about where we live, how our food is grown, and where new business ventures choose to locate are impacted by climate change. Kahn suggests new ways that big data can be deployed to ease energy or water shortages to aid agricultural operations and proposes informed policy changes related to public infrastructure, disaster relief, and real estate to nudge land use, transportation options, and business development in the right direction.-- Provided by publisher.

Matthew E. Kahn is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Economics and Business at Johns Hopkins University and he is a Provost Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California.