The chapters of this cumulative dissertation contribute to the evidence base on the effect of different policies on decarbonising energy supply, in other words reducing greenhouse gas emissions from energy use while maintaining energy services. The use of fossil fuels is the most important...

Climate variability is one of the main environmental causes of losses to the agricultural sector. Most of the methodological tools applied to estimate its economic cost usually account only for the direct impact on agricultural activity. In this paper we use an alternative approach in which a...

Recently, various environmental problems have been generated with the rapid economic development in China. That's because China currently over-emphasized economic development beyond environmental issues; therefore, now it is important to enforce optimal environmental policies in order to achieve...