Center for Global Change Science: Recent submissions

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    • Combining Price and Quantity Controls under Partitioned Environmental Regulation 

      Abrell, J.; Rausch, S. (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2016-07)
      This paper analyzes hybrid emissions trading systems (ETS) under partitioned environmental regulation when firms’ abatement costs and future emissions are uncertain. We show that hybrid policies that introduce bounds on ...

    • The Impact of Water Scarcity on Food, Bioenergy and Deforestation 

      Winchester, N.; Ledvina, K.; Strzepek, K.; Reilly, J.M. (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2016-07)
      We evaluate the impact of explicitly representing irrigated land and water scarcity in an economy-wide model on food prices, bioenergy production and deforestation both with and without a global carbon policy. The analysis ...

    • The Impact of Coordinated Policies on Air Pollution Emissions from Road Transportation in China 

      Kishimoto, P.N.; Karplus, V.J.; Zhong, M.; Saikawa, E.; Zhang, X.; e.a. (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2016-07)
      Improving air quality across mainland China is an urgent policy challenge. While much of the problem is linked to China’s broader reliance on coal and other fossil fuels across the energy system, road transportation is an ...