ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) and American Forests http://www.americanforests.org/productsandpubs/citygreen/ [Website] CITYgreen software from American Forests performs complex analysis of ecosystem services and creates easy-to-understand reports. The software calculates dollar benefits for the services provided by trees and other green space in your specific area. CITYgreen is engineered as an extension to the ESRI’s ArcGIS software. CITYgreen … Continue reading »
Posted on August 4, 2009 …
Assessing the Role of Economic Instruments in a policy mix for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision : a Review of Some Methodological Challenges
Munich Personal REPEC Archive (MPRA) / by D.N. Barton, G. Rusch, P. May, I. Ring, H. Unnerstall, R. Santos, P. Antunes, R. Brouwer, M. Grieg-Gran, J. Similä, E. Primmer, A. Romeiro, F. DeClerck and M. Ibrahim http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15601/ [Abstract] In this paper we review a number of methodological challenges of evaluating and designing economic instruments aimed … Continue reading »
The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on Business : Evidence from Microdata
Centre for Economic Performance; London School of Economics and Political Science (CEP Discussion Paper No 917; March, 2009) / by Ralf Martin, Laure B. de Preux and Ulrich J. Wagner http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0917.pdf [Abstract] We estimate the impacts of an energy tax – the Climate Change Levy (CCL) – on the manufacturing sector using panel data from … Continue reading »
An Economic and Environmental Assessment of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Power Plants – A Case Study for the City of Kiel
Kiel Institute for the World Economy; (D-24100 Kiel, Germany) / by Sören Lindner, Sonja Peterson and Wilhelm Windhorst http://www.ifw-members.ifw-kiel.de/publications/an-economic-and-environmental-assessment-of-carbon-capture-and-storage-ccs-power-plants-2013-a-case-study-for-the-city-of-kiel/kwp-1527 [Abstract] In the next years several power plants throughout Europe have to be replaced and the questions is whether to build coal fired power plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS). In a study for the city … Continue reading »
Preparing the Workers of Today for the Jobs of Tomorrow
President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea/Jobs-of-the-Future/ [From executive summary] In this report, the CEA presents a projection of potential developments in the U.S. labor market over the next five to ten years and discusses the preparations necessary to develop the 21st century workforce…[The report predicted a 52 percent growth between 2000 and 2016 for … Continue reading »
Automobiles on Steroids : Product Attribute Trade-Offs and Technological Progress in the Automobile Sector
Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis (Research Report UCD-ITS-RR-09-16) / by Christopher R. Knittel http://pubs.its.ucdavis.edu/publication_detail.php? Summary from GCC article] Based on detailed model-level data for US light-duty vehicles from 1980 to 2006, a recent analysis by a UC Davis researcher found that if weight, horsepower and torque had been held at their 1980 … Continue reading »
