Browsing Center for Global Change Science by Title
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Global population growth, technology, and Malthusian constraints: A quantitative growth theoretic perspective
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2015-10)We structurally estimate a two-sector Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous population and finite land reserves to study the long run evolution of global population, technological progress and the demand for food. The ... -
Global warming projections : sensitivity to deep ocean mixing
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 1996-09)The climatological impact of increases in greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, despite being a subject of intensive study in recent years, is still very uncertain. One major uncertainty affecting possible climate ... -
Green Growth and the Efficient Use of Natural Resources
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-06-14)The relatively new concept of "green growth" can be fruitfully connected to concepts and theories in neoclassical economics including market externalities, Ricardian and Hotelling rents, and policies that would correct ... -
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation as a Structural Change and Policies that Offset Its Depressing Effects
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2006-07)The current economic modeling of emissions limitations does not embody economic features that are likely to be particularly important in the short term, yet the politics of limiting greenhouse gas emissions are often ... -
Greenhouse policy architectures and institutions
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 1996-11)This paper discusses the design of efficient environmental policies in general and reviews omissions and shortcomings of the presentation of the economic dimensions of climate change in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ... -
Health Damages from Air Pollution in China
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2011-03)In China, elevated levels of urban air pollution result in substantial adverse health impacts for its large and rapidly growing urban population. An expanded version of the Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis (EPPA), ... -
Health Damages from Air Pollution in China
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2011-03)In China, elevated levels of urban air pollution result in substantial adverse health impacts for its large and rapidly growing urban population. An expanded version of the Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis (EPPA), ... -
Heavier Crude, Changing Demand for Petroleum Fuels, Regional Climate Policy, and the Location of Upgrading Capacity:
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2007-04)The crude slate is likely to become heavier in the future with greater reliance on bitumens, tar sands, heavy oils, and eventually possibly shale oil. Under standard refining processes these crude oil sources produce a ... -
How to think about human influence on climate
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2000-10)We present a pedagogical paper on the detection of climate change and its attribution to anthropogenic influences. We attempt to separate the key thought processes and tools that are used when making qualitative statements ... -
The Impact of Advanced Biofuels on Aviation Emissions and Operations in the U.S.
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2015-02)We analyze the economic and emissions impacts on U.S. commercial aviation of the Federal Aviation Administration’s renewable jet fuel goal when met using advanced fermentation (AF) fuel from perennial grasses. These fuels ... -
The Impact of Border Carbon Adjustments under Alternative Producer Responses
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2011-02)Border carbon adjustments (BCAs) have been proposed to address leakage and competitiveness concerns. In traditional assessments, firms regard BCAs as output taxes rather than implicit emissions taxes. Using a stylized ... -
Impact of Canopy Representations on Regional Modeling of Evapotranspiration using the WRF-ACASA Coupled Model
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2015-12)In this study, we couple the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) with the Advanced Canopy-Atmosphere-Soil Algorithm (ACASA), a high complexity land surface model, to investigate the impact of canopy representation ... -
The Impact of Climate Policy on Carbon Capture and Storage Deployment in China
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2015-12)Carbon capture and storage (CCS) from coal combustion is widely viewed as an important approach for China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emission mitigation, but the pace of its development is still fairly slow. In addition to the ... -
The Impact of Climate Policy on Carbon Capture and Storage Deployment in China
(2015-12-28)Carbon capture and storage (CCS) from coal combustion is widely viewed as an important approach for China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emission mitigation, but the pace of its development is still fairly slow. In addition to the ... -
The Impact of Climate Policy on U.S. Aviation
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2011-04)We evaluate the impact of an economy-wide cap-and-trade policy on U.S. aviation taking the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (H.R.2454) as a representative example. We use an economywide model to estimate the ... -
The Impact of Coordinated Policies on Air Pollution Emissions from Road Transportation in China
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2016-07)Improving air quality across mainland China is an urgent policy challenge. While much of the problem is linked to China’s broader reliance on coal and other fossil fuels across the energy system, road transportation is an ... -
Impact of emissions, chemistry, and climate on atmospheric carbon monoxide : 100-year predictions from a global chemistry-climate model
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 1998-04)The possible trends for atmospheric carbon monoxide in the next 100 yr have been illustrated using a coupled atmospheric chemistry and climate model driven by emissions predicted by a global economic development model. ... -
The Impact of Oil Prices on Bioenergy, Emissions and Land Use
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2016-10)We evaluate how alternative future oil prices will influence the penetration of biofuels, energy production, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, land use and other outcomes. Our analysis employs a global economy wide model and ... -
Impact of Sulfur and Carbonaceous Emissions from International Shipping on Aerosol Distributions and Direct Radiative Forcing
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2008-04)We describe in this report an effort using the MIT/NCAR three-dimensional aerosol-climate model to study the impact of ship emissions on chemical composition and radiative forcing of aerosols. Our results indicate that ... -
The Impact of Water Scarcity on Food, Bioenergy and Deforestation
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2016-07)We evaluate the impact of explicitly representing irrigated land and water scarcity in an economy-wide model on food prices, bioenergy production and deforestation both with and without a global carbon policy. The analysis ...
