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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Carbon policy"”.
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Air quality impacts and benefits under U.S. policy for air pollution, climate change, and clean energy
… represents how climate change and clean energy policy affect pollutant emissions throughout the economy, and how these emissions then affect human health and economic welfare. This methodology allows this thesis to explore the effect of policy design on the distribution of air quality impacts …
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Quantifying the cost uncertainty of climate stabilization policies
… effects of climate stabilization policies. Policy costs are particularly important because policymakers use a cost/benefit framework to analyze policy options. Many different models have been developed to estimate economic costs and to inform cost/benefit decisions. This thesis examines what …
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Sustainable Low-Carbon Isolated Island Electricity Systems - Policy and Investment Impacts Assessed Using System Dynamics
This thesis presents a novel System Dynamics (SD) policy and investment analysis framework for future low-carbon electricity systems, using an electrically isolated island system as its case study. Current electricity systems are undergoing a long-term transition towards reduced fossil fuel use, …
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Beyond Health Co-Benefits: Air Quality-Related Equity Implications of US Decarbonization Policy
… populations in the U.S. Ambitious climate policy to decarbonize the economy may be an appealing pathway to concurrently reduce air pollution and improve health, and a growing body of literature has established the significant health benefits from policies aimed to reduce GHG emissions. …
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Techno-economic and socio-economic modelling of energy in road transport to inform climate policy
… prompted a growing political consensus on a decarbonised future to prevent any sustained economic or environmental harm. Many countries are using modelling tools to develop strategies and policy measures to deliver timely and effective reductions of harmful greenhouse gas emissions across all …
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Modeling economies and ecosystems in general equilibrium
… in oxides of nitrogen and sulfur from a carbon policy in the US electric sector are on the order of $10 bn., which rival the policy's welfare costs and make 12-13% carbon abatement economically justifiable without considering any climate benefits. For ecosystem applications, this work …
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Large-scale optimization for green logistics and stochastic resource allocation for food security
We studied several important management and policy analysis problems in food supply chain systems utilizing large-scale optimization, stochastic resource allocation, and data-analytics methodologies. We focused on three main research questions: 1) How can retailers build green, efficient last-mile …
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The role of CCS as a mitigation technology and challenges to its commercialization
… from industrial facilities and power plants, carbon capture and storage (CCS) is expected to play an important role in mitigating climate change. The estimated contribution of CCS to a given emissions reduction target depends on assumptions made about various factors such as the availability …
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Three essays on quantitative analysis in commodity markets
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms