Center for Global Change Science: Recent submissions
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The Role of China in Mitigating Climate Change
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-04)We explore short- and long-term implications of several energy scenarios of China’s role in efforts to mitigate global climate risk. The focus is on the impacts on China’s energy system and GDP growth, and on global climate ... -
CliCrop: a Crop Water-Stress and Irrigation Demand Model for an Integrated Global Assessment Model Approach
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-04)This paper describes the use of the CliCrop model in the context of climate change general assessment modeling. The MIT Integrated Global System Model (IGSM) framework is a global integrated assessment modeling framework ... -
City-Size Distribution as a Function of Socioeconomic Conditions: An Eclectic Approach to Downscaling Global Population
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-03)In this study, we introduce a new method of downscaling global population distribution, for which purpose conventional approaches have serious limitations in application. Our approach is “eclectic,” as it explores the ...
