Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy: Recent submissions

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    • Estimating the Economic Cost of Sea-Level Rise 

      Sugiyama, Masahiro.; Nicholls, Robert J.; Vafeidis, Athanasios (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2008-04)
      To improve the estimate of economic costs of future sea-level rise associated with global climate change, this report generalizes the sea-level rise cost function originally proposed by Fankhauser, and applies it to a ...

    • Potential Land Use Implications of a Global Biofuels Industry 

      Gurgel, Angelo C.; Reilly, John M.; Paltsev, Sergey. (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2008-03)
      In this paper we investigate the potential production and implications of a global biofuels industry. We develop alternative approaches to the introduction of land as an economic factor input, in value and physical terms, ...

    • Modeling the Prospects for Hydrogen Powered Transportation Through 2100 

      Sandoval, Reynaldo.; Karplus, Valerie J.; Paltsev, Sergey.; Reilly, John M. (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2008-02)
      Hydrogen fueled transportation has been proposed as a low carbon alternative to the current gasoline-powered fleet. Using a computable general equilibrium model of the world economy we explore the economic viability of ...