of air pollution. Chapter 2 analyses the potential application of desalination in China from an economic perspective … health impacts from air pollution in Tianjin. Although China has made dramatic economic progress in recent years, air …This thesis investigates several selected environmental issues in China from an economic perspective. It consists of …

quantitative analysis of the effects of these reforms on total emissions and fuel economy in three different states of the world …

-effective pollution reduction. One of the important design questions in a trading program is how to initially distribute the emissions …Cap-and-trade programs for air emissions have become the widely accepted, preferred approach to cost … allowances. Under the Acid Rain program created by Title IV of the Clean Air Act, most emissions allowances were distributed to …

regional, mandatory, market-based cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity sector …

general principles presented in this paper on least cost emission reductions and emissions banking to hedge against risk are …

{sub 2} allowance prices, compliance choices, capacity expansion, system dispatch, fuel use, and emissions. The revised model …

. Then a case study is presented focusing on the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments including SO{sub 2} emissions abatement and …