A5056095639- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Vehicle emissions and performance
- Water resources management and optimization
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Extraction and Separation Processes
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Regulation and Compliance Studies
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies
- Electric Power System Optimization
Resources For The Future
2011-2023
Washington University in St. Louis
2012
Georgia Department of Natural Resources
2007
Georgia Institute of Technology
2007
Carnegie Mellon University
1994-1995
Demand‐management policy rules are sought during drought and impending for a water system consisting of reservoir dedicated only to supply. The creation such requires solution nonlinear, nonseparable mathematical programming problem. A polytope search algorithm using combination simulation optimization is compared an iterative mixed integer method determine the parameters continuous demand management rules. signal used calling rationing trigger volume given in terms months (as volume) that...
Abstract. Ammonia (NH3) emissions have large impacts on air quality and nitrogen deposition, influencing human health the well-being of sensitive ecosystems. Large uncertainties exist in “bottom-up” NH3 emission inventories due to limited source information a historical lack measurements, hindering assessment NH3-related environmental impacts. The increasing capability satellites measure abundance development modeling tools enable us better constrain estimates at high spatial resolution. In...
This paper informs the discussion of carbon price policies by examining potential for adverse impacts on domestic industries, with a focus detailed sector-level analysis. The assumed policy scenario involves unilateral economy-wide $10/ton CO2 charge without accompanying border tax adjustments or other complementary policies. Four modeling approaches are developed as proxy different time horizons over which firms can pass through added costs, change input mix, adopt new technologies, and...
Reported expenditures for environmental protection are often cited as an assessment of the burden current regulatory efforts. However, potential both incidental savings and uncounted costs means that actual could be either higher or lower than these reported values.Using a production cost model considers possible interaction between non-environmental expenditures, we directly estimate dollar-for-dollar savings/uncounted arising from one-dollar increase in expenditures. Although recent...
Data sets from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 1995 and 2000 Community Water Systems surveys were used to examine production costs of water supply systems. The authors estimate economies scale by estimating elasticities both total unit cost individual component costs. For cost, they found that a 1% increase reduced statistically significant 0.16%. costs, higher in capital, materials, outside services, other lower, but still positive, labor energy found. These may reflect or...
In developing countries, the rapid proliferation of informal firms – low-technology unlicensed micro-enterprises is having significant environmental impacts. Yet management authorities typically ignore such firms. This paper estimates annual net benefits (benefits minus costs) controlling particulate emissions from a collection brick kilns in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and two city's leading formal industrial polluters. We find that kiln are substantial tens millions dollars exceed those for...
Watersheds play many important roles in the carbon cycle: (1) they are a site for both terrestrial and aquatic dioxide (CO2) removal through photosynthesis; (2) transport living decomposing organic streams groundwater; (3) store widely varying lengths of time as function biogeochemical factors. Using U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Spatially Referenced Regression on Watershed Attributes (SPARROW) model, along with long-term monitoring data total (TOC), this research quantitatively estimates...
Inactive oil and gas wells present an environmental hazard if not properly plugged. Upon drilling a well, operators are required to post bond, which ensures that the operator has incentive plug abandon (P&A) at end of well's life, that, state is left with liability managing "orphaned" wells, it can cover cost P&A. Using data from 13 agencies on their orphaned well plugging expenditures, we provide new estimates P&A costs in United States compare them bond amounts. Current bonding...
Improved technology is often cited as a means to alter the otherwise difficult trade-off between economic burden of regulation and environmental damage. Focusing on energy-saving technologies that mitigate threat climate change, we find both energy prices financial health influence adoption among sample industrial plants in four heavily polluting sectors. Based model linking growth aggregate efficiency, estimate doubling prices, after raising rate 2.1%, would require slightly more than 50...
While the U.S. air quality management system is largely designed and managed on a state level, many critical problems are now recognized as regional. In particular, concentrations of two secondary pollutants, ozone particulate matter, often above regulated levels can be dependent emissions from upwind states. Here, impacts statewide local downwind states' fine matter simulated for three seasonal periods in eastern United States using regional Eulerian photochemical model. Impacts ground...
Abstract The animal husbandry industry is a major emitter of ammonia (NH3), which precursor fine particulate matter (PM2.5)—arguably, the number-one environment-related public health threat facing nation. also methane (CH4), an important greenhouse gas (GHG). We present integrated process model engineering economics technologies to reduce NH3 and CH4 emissions at dairy operations in California. Three policy options are explored: PM offset credits for control, GHG expanded net metering...
In this study we use datasets from the 1995 and 2000 Community Water Supply surveys to examine production costs of water supply systems. We first estimate economies scale in by estimating total unit cost as well individual component elasticities. For elasticity, find that a 1% increase reduces statistically significant 0.16%. elasticities, higher exist capital costs, outside other materials costs; labor energy exhibit lower but still positive scale. These may reflect or suggest larger...