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

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    • Analyzing the Regional Impact of a Fossil Energy Cap in China 

      Zhang, D.; Karplus, V.; Rausch, S.; Zhang, X. (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2013-01)
      Decoupling fossil energy demand from economic growth is crucial to China’s sustainable development. In addition to energy and carbon intensity targets enacted under the Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2011–2015), a coal or fossil ...

    • Modeling Water Resource Systems under Climate Change: IGSM-WRS 

      Strzepek, K.; Schlosser, C.A.; Gueneau, A.; Gao, X.; Blanc, É.; e.a. (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-12)
      Through the integration of a Water Resource System (WRS) component, the MIT Integrated Global System Model (IGSM) framework has been enhanced to study the effects of climate change on managed water-resource systems. ...

    • Non-Nuclear, Low-Carbon, or Both? The Case of Taiwan 

      Chen, Y.-H. Henry (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-12)
      The Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan has renewed debates on the safety of nuclear power, possibly hurting the role of nuclear power in efforts to limit CO2 emissions. I develop a dynamic economy-wide model of Taiwan ...