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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"integrated assessment models"”.
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Using Integrated Assessment Models to Achieve the Paris Climate Target
Integrated assessment models (IAMs) have become central tools in global assessments of how to achieve the Paris climate target. But how reliable are the insights that can be drawn from IAMs? This thesis identifies and begins to assess three challenges associated with the use of IAM ensembles and …
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An integrated assessment of air pollutant abatement opportunities in a computable general equilibrium framework
… collectively react to regulatory constraints. Integrated assessment models have often been used as tools to inform policy design by representing the interactions between technology, economics, policy, and the environment within a self-contained framework. Many contemporary integrated assessment …
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Connecting the continents. Power system modelling and capacity building for detailed assessments of global power sector decarbonization pathways
… a number of key foundation blocks for robust assessments of global power system decarbonization pathways by means of open methods and datasets that can be used with a broad range of modelling tools. The author constructs and uses a detailed global power system model with high technical, …
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Technology Performance Curves to Inform Government and Private Investment
… change employed in industrial, economic, and integrated assessment models to inform decision-making processes. Technology performance curves have evolved from their origins in the 1920s modeling of airframe manufacturing labor cost to consider mechanisms of technological progress, including …
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Climate Change and Potential Economic Impacts in Ireland: The Case for Adaptation
… complexities associated with creating economic assessments, formulating policy and carrying out appropriate action. Drawing on sustainability science the terms resilience, vulnerability and adaptive capacity are also discussed, defined and engaged with. Key results, associated with both …
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Bringing economic inequality into coupled economic-environmental models
Coupled economic-environmental models are cross-disciplinary tools that explore how economic activity interacts with the environment and vice versa. This thesis focuses on models that estimate the economic consequences of climate change, different greenhouse gas emissions pathways, and mitigation …
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Modelling the economic and social consequences of drought under future projections of climate change
… of future anthropogenic climate change. Climate models are increasingly being used to understand how climate change may affect future drought regimes. However, methodologies to quantify the type and scale of social and economic effects that could occur under these future scenarios are virtually …