Center for Global Change Science: Recent submissions

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    • Global economic growth and agricultural land conversion under uncertain productivity improvements in agriculture 

      Lanz, B.; Dietz, S.; Swanson, T. (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2017-06)
      We study how stochasticity in the evolution of agricultural productivity interacts with economic and population growth at the global level. We use a two-sector Schumpeterian model of growth, in which a manufacturing sector ...

    • Can Tariffs be Used to Enforce Paris Climate Commitments? 

      Winchester, N. (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2017-06)
      We evaluate the potential for using border carbon adjustments (BCAs) and welfare-maximizing tariffs to compel non-compliant countries to meet emissions reduction targets pledged under the Paris Climate Agreement. Our ...

    • A Review of and Perspectives on Global Change Modeling for Northern Eurasia 

      Monier, E.; Kicklighter, D.; Sokolov, A.; Zhuang, Q.; Sokolik, I.; e.a. (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2017-05)
      Northern Eurasia is made up of a complex and diverse set of physical, ecological, climatic and human systems, which provide important ecosystem services including the storage of substantial stocks of carbon in its terrestrial ...