Environmental Risk and Uncertainty
The need to understand the theories and applications of economic and finance risk has been clear to everyone since the financial crisis, and this collection of original essays proffers broad, high-lev
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Weathering the Climate Crisis
The article discusses climate change as of 2014.
Transgenic Crops and Food Security
By the year 2050, there will be more than 9 billion people in the world; nearly 3 billion more than today.
Energy from Fossil Fuels: Challenges and Opportunities for Technology Innovation
This volume includes 13 papers from the National Academy of Engineering's 2013 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) Symposium held in September 2013.
The Employment and Competitiveness Impacts of Power-Sector Regulations
Book abstract: As millions of Americans struggle to find work in the wake of the Great Recession, politicians from both parties look to regulation in search of an economic cure.
Biotechnology and Food Security
This book is a compendium of knowledge, experience and insight on agriculture, biotechnology and development.
Energy RD&D Investments in the Major Emerging Economies and the United States
Energy technology innovation – improving how we produce and use energy – is critical for a transition towards sustainability.
The US Synthetic Fuels Corporation: Policy Consistency, Flexibility and the Long-term Consequences of Perceived Failures
Energy technology innovation – improving how we produce and use energy – is critical for a transition towards sustainability.
Risk Regulation Lessons from Mad Cows
Risk Regulation Lesson from Mad Cows analyses and compares the policy responses in the U.K. and U.S. to the mad cow disease crisis.
Public Engagement on Solar Radiation Management and Why it Needs to Happen Now
There have been a number of calls for public engagement in geoengineering in recent years.
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