Securing Property Rights
A central challenge in securing property rights is the subversion of justice.
Research
Investor Rewards to Climate Responsibility:Stock-Price Responses to the Opposite Shocks of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Elections
Donald Trump's 2016 election and his nomination of climate skeptic Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency drastically downshifted expectations on U.S. policy toward climate change.
The Role of Retrospective Analysis in an Era of Deregulation: Lessons from the U.S. Mercury Air Toxic Standards
As of late 2020, the Trump administration had initiated almost one hundred rollbacks of U.S. environmental regulations.
Co-Benefits and Regulatory Impact Analysis: Theory and Evidence from Federal Air Quality Regulations
This paper considers the treatment of co-benefits in benefit-cost analysis of federal air quality regulations.
Environmental Benefit-Cost Analysis: A Comparative Analysis Between the United States and the United Kingdom
The United States and United Kingdom have longstanding traditions in use of environmental benefit-cost analysis (E-BCA).
Potential revenue and breakeven of energy storage systems in PJM energy markets
The operation in energy arbitrage markets is an attractive possibility to energy storage systems developers and owners to justify an investment in this sector.
Humility in the Anthropocene
The last 50 years have witnessed a set of changes in the scale of humankind’s ecological imagination toward ‘thinking globally’.
Elicitation of US and Chinese expert judgments show consistent views on solar geoengineering
Expert judgments on solar geoengineering (SG) inform policy decisions and influence public opinions.
Designing a Radiative Antidote to CO2
Solar radiation modification (SRM) reduces the CO2-induced change to the mean global hydrological cycle disproportionately more than it reduces the CO2-induced increase in mean surface temperature.
Livestock plants and COVID-19 transmission
Policy responses to the COVID-19 outbreak must strike a balance between maintaining essential supply chains and limiting the spread of the virus.
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