Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Reports: Recent submissions

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    • Modeling Water Withdrawal and Consumption for Electricity Generation in the United States 

      Strzepek, Kenneth M.; Baker, Jonathan; Farmer, William; Schlosser, C. Adam (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-06-15)
      Water withdrawals for thermoelectric cooling account for a significant portion of total water use in the United States. Any change in electrical energy generation policy and technologies has the potential to have a major ...

    • Green Growth and the Efficient Use of Natural Resources 

      Reilly, John (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-06-14)
      The relatively new concept of "green growth" can be fruitfully connected to concepts and theories in neoclassical economics including market externalities, Ricardian and Hotelling rents, and policies that would correct ...

    • Leackage from Sub-national Climate Initiatives: The Case of California 

      Caron, Justin; Rausch, Sebastian; Winchester, Niven (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-05-29)
      With federal policies to curb greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. stagnating, California has taken action on its own. We estimate the impact of California’s cap-and-trade program on the leakage of emissions to other ...