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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"global systems"”.
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A coupled soil hydrology model and terrestrial ecology scheme for the MIT Integrated Global Systems Model
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2002.
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A reduced-form statistical climate model suitable for coupling with economic emissions projections
… on results from the more complex MIT Integrated Global Systems Model (IGSM). The functions we generate should allow a software system to approximate the environmental variables from the policy inputs in a matter of seconds. At the same time, the estimates should be close enough to the exact …
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From the Trashcan to the Chicken Bucket: towards an ideology of composting
… the hope that my stories will not only unobscure global systems of wasting, but that my stories of unlearning, mending, and reimagining wasting will resonate with many lived experiences.
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Climate policy design : interactions among carbon dioxide, methane, and urban air pollution constraints
… and Policy Analysis model, the Integrated Global Systems Model, and political analysis methods. The thesis explores three cases. The first case addresses stabilization, the ultimate objective of Article 2 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. We highlight the implications of …
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Quantitatively Assessing the Role of Higher Education in Global Sustainability
… assesses the role of higher education in global sustainability. Linear regression is used to assess correlations between institutional environmental impacts and campus initiatives; environmentally-extended input-output analysis is used to assess the global operational footprint of higher …
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Building Blocks of a Just Transition: Green Banks and Residential Building Decarbonization in New York
… to financial solutions aimed at transitioning global systems away from fossil fuels and towards clean energy. Green banks are one such solution as a specialty finance vehicle aimed at using public funds to induce private investment in climate energy projects such as residential building …
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Impacts of greenhouse gas mitigation policies on agricultural land
… acknowledged to be responsible for much of the global warming in the past century. A number of approaches have been proposed to mitigate GHG emissions. Since the burning of fossil-based fuels is an important source of GHGs, the policies on GHG-mitigation encourage the replacement of fossil-based …
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The political economy of English textile manufacturers in an era of national and global change, 1688-1722;
… and how they interacted with and reshaped the global economy through those combined understandings. Each one of these aspects is inseparable from both the others and its own context: respectively methods of production, economic development, national structures and government, and global trade …
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The Whiteness Project of Gentrification: The Battle over Los Angeles' Eastside
… the locality of gentrification is connected to global systems.</p> <p>By employing critical and rhetorical methods, I explore gentrification by analyzing three points that contextualize urban communication: materiality, bodies, and movement. In this way, the goal was to understand how the city …
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The Enduring Role of Conflict in the Perpetuation of Famine: Advancing 'The Right to Adequate Food' for Sustainable Peace
… thesis evaluates developments and trends in global conflict dynamics, global systems of governance, and global hunger. Together, the thesis investigates and upholds the notion that famine is a ‘man-made’ phenomenon and explains how famine persists in a world abundant with food. Through …
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Wetland model in an earth systems modeling framework for regional environmental policy analysis
… is the land fluxes component of the Integrated Global Systems Model (IGSM), a framework that simulates the relationship of physical systems to climate variations. Wetlands play an important role in the storage and regulation of the global water budget so including them in a land water cycle …
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Shared Lunch: An Ethnography of Food Sovereignty in Whaingaroa and Beyond
… and innovation; wealth and poverty; the global, local and highly personal. Amid this multifaceted intersection vast bodies of contemporary academic literature have emerged. This study is an ethnography of alternative food networks; of food sovereignty and social economics. More …
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Reframing global warming for better risk management: climate change, food insecurity and societal collapse
… the welfare of current and future generations globally. The recent failure of COP26 to ‘flick the switch’ on urgent climate action demonstrates the need for a paradigm shift in the way that we think about the threat of climate change. Good risk management requires consideration and …
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Systems at Play: The Construction of International Systems in Social Impact Games
… of and navigate the intersection between digital systems and real world systems by asking, how can social impact game designers shape procedural rhetoric to effectively address complex real world systems with digital systems? By examining three game case studies, I reach four significant findings …