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.
Research
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.
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.
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.
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.
The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment
Two decades have passed since the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 launched a grand experiment in market-based environmental policy: the SO2 cap-and-trade system.
Growing the Nutritional Revolution
The world is waking up to the urgent need to ensure that agriculture — through crop diversification — can help to address the world's nutritional needs.
Climate Policy Under Uncertainty: A Case for Solar Geoengineering
Solar Radiation Management (SRM) has two characteristics that make it useful for managing climate risk: it is quick and it is cheap.
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