Der WBGU zeigt, dass eine globale Energiewende unerlässlich ist, um die natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen der Menschheit zu schützen und die Energiearmut in den Entwicklungsländern zu beseitigen. Nur durch einen grundlegenden Umbau der Energiesysteme lässt sich eine nicht nachhaltige Entwicklung...

To help guide development of the Gross National Happiness (GNH), this paper analyzes Western economic systems. Drivers of environmental and social problems will be discussed with the goal of helping Bhutan avoid these pitfalls. The paper then suggests a strategy for developing the GNH as well as...

Im gleichen Zuge, in dem sich China und Indien zu dominierenden Wirtschaftsmächten entwickeln, wird sich die Belastung des Ökosystems in regionaler und globaler Hinsicht drastisch verschärfen. So rechnet die Internationale Energieagentur (IEA) damit, dass Indien bis 2015 weltweit der...

The effectiveness of SO{sub 2} emission allowance trading under Title 4 of the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act (CAA) is of great interest due to the innovative nature of this market incentive approach. However, it may be a mistake to frame the compliance problem for a utility as a decision...

This paper deals with the market for SO{sub 2} emission allowances over time and electric utility compliance choices. For currently high emitting plants ( 2.5 lb SO{sub 2}/MMBtu), the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) provide for about twice as many SO{sub 2} allowances to be issued per year...

This report provides background information for the Bonneville Power Administration (Bonneville) in its efforts to quantify the environmental externalities associated with new electricity resources. A more detailed companion document has been provided to Bonneville for internal use. This report...

Concentrations of environmental pollutants tend to follow positively skewed frequency distributions. Two such density functions are the gamma and lognormal. Minimum variance unbiased estimators of the expected value for both densities are available. The small sample statistical properties of...

This paper focuses on how electric utility companies can respond in their decision making to uncertain variables. Here we take a mean- variance type of approach. The mean'' value is an expected cost, on a discounted value basis. We assume that management has risk preferences incorporating a...