US EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics / by Wesley R. Brooks and Stephen C. Newbold http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/WPNumber/2013-02 The impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems are among the key reasons for concern about climate change. Integrated assessment models are the main tools used to estimate the global economic benefits of policies that would address climate change, but … Continue reading »
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Moving Forward with Incorporating “Catastrophic” Climate Change into Policy Analysis
US EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics / by Elizabeth Kopits, Alex L. Marten, and Ann Wolverton http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/WPNumber/2013-01 It has often been stated that current studies aimed at understanding the magnitude of optimal climate policy fail to adequately capture the potential for “catastrophic” impacts of climate change. While economic modeling exercises to date do provide … Continue reading »
More than the Sum of their Parts: Valuing Environmental Quality by Combining Life Satisfaction Surveys and GIS Data
OECD / by Jérôme Silva and Zachary Brown http://bit.ly/12z3QSg While environmental economics studies using stated life satisfaction data have been gaining attention, much of this body of work remains exploratory. In this study we contribute to this emerging body of research by combining OECD survey data from four European countries on life satisfaction and perceptions of environmental quality … Continue reading »
A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years
Science (March 8 2013: v339 n6124 p1198-1201; DOI: 10.1126/science.1228026) / by Shaun A. Marcott, Jeremy D. Shakun, Peter U. Clark, Alan C. Mix (This seems to be an open access article — it’s certainly available to RFFers) http://bit.ly/XXGZ0R [Wall Street Journal introduction to article] New research suggests average global temperatures were higher in the past decade … Continue reading »
Effects of Vehicle Fuel Economy, Distance Travelled, and Vehicle Load on the Amount of Fuel Used for Personal Transportation in the US: 1970-2010
University of Michigan, Transportation Research Institute / by Michael Sivak http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/96632/102926.pdf [Green Car Congress] A new study by Dr. Michael Sivak, Director, Sustainable Worldwide Transportation, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), has found that from 1970-2010, an increase in vehicle distance travelled in the US, coupled with a decrease in the number of occupants … Continue reading »
Nonresponse in Social Science Surveys: A Research Agenda
National Research Council http://bit.ly/VLijaY For many household surveys in the United States, responses rates have been steadily declining for at least the past two decades. A similar decline in survey response can be observed in all wealthy countries. Efforts to raise response rates have used such strategies as monetary incentives or repeated attempts to contact … Continue reading »
The Leverage of Demographic Dynamics on Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Does Age Structure Matter?
Demography (February 2011, v48, n1, p371-399) / by Emilio Zagheni http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13524-010-0004-1 This article provides a methodological contribution to the study of the effect of changes in population age structure on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. First, I propose a generalization of the IPAT equation to a multisector economy with an age-structured population and discuss the insights … Continue reading »
Factor Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Automobiles
University of Michigan / by John M. DeCicco http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2205144 [Green Car Congress] In a new working paper, Prof. John DeCicco at the University of Michigan argues that to reduce transportation sector greenhouse gas emissions, the proper policy focus should be upstream in sectors that provide the fuel, rather than downstream on the choice of fuels … Continue reading »
Bounding the Role of Black Carbon in the Climate System: A Scientific Assessment
Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres (published online before print; doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50171) / by T. C. Bond, et al. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jgrd.50171/abstract [Green Car Congress] …The direct influence of black carbon, or soot, on warming the climate could be about twice previous estimates, according to an in-depth open-access study by an international team of 31 authors published in the Journal of … Continue reading »
Draft National Climate Assessment Report
United States Global Change Research Program http://www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment …The NCADAC has engaged more than 240 authors in the creation of the report. The authors are acknowledged at the beginning of the chapters they co-authored. Following extensive review by the National Academies of Sciences and by the public, this report will be revised by the NCADAC and, … Continue reading »
