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Nuclear versus coal plus CCS : a comparison of two competitive base-load climate control options
Tavoni, Massimo; Zwaan, Bob van der - 2009
exogenous limitations on the spread of nuclear technology were relaxed. Using the climate change economics model WITCH we find … extensive the improvements of coal-based power equipped with CCS technology would need to be if our model is to significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824510
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Habakkuk revisited : a history friendly model of "American and British technology in the nineteenth century"
Fontana, Roberto (contributor); Guerzoni, Marco (contributor) - 2008
This paper presents a History Friendly Model which addresses the issue of the bifurcation in technological stylesʺ between US and Britain during the nineteenth century. The model aims at gaining a better understanding of the micro-dynamics that gave rise to different patterns of innovation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003766011
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A typology of technology market intermediaries
Tietze, Frank - 2010 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Technology Market Intermediaries (TMI) are currently emerging on the markets for technologies attempting to realize … business opportunities and facilitate the technology and IP transactions supporting firms and other markets actors (e ….g. universities). They aim to support open innovation, respectively facilitate more economically technology and particularly IP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009427556
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Taxonomy for the technology domain
Tomei, Lawrence A. - 2005
"This book suggests a new classification system for classroom teaching that includes literacy, collaboration, decision …-making, infusion, integration, and technology. As with most taxonomies, each step offers a progressively more sophisticated level of …1. Domains of teaching -- 2. Psychologies of learning -- 3. Taxonomies of education -- 4. Technology and education -- 5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011726624
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The White House and the Kyoto Protocol: Double Standards on Uncertainties and Their Consequences
Tulkens, Philippe; Tulkens, Henry - 2006
This paper compares the level of uncertainty widely reported in climate change scientific publications with the level of uncertainty of the costs estimates of implementing the Kyoto Protocol in the United States. It argues that these two categories of uncertainties were used and ignored,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312529
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Abatement technology and the environment-growth nexus with education
Pautrel, Xavier - 2011
capital accumulation in the presence of pollution arising from final output production. It demonstrates that the technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008903411
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Management of hazardous waste and contaminated land
Sigman, Hilary; Stafford, Sarah L. - 2010
Regulation of hazardous waste and cleanup of contaminated sites are two major components of modern public policy for environmental protection. We review the literature on these related areas, with emphasis on empirical analyses. Researchers have identified many behavioral responses to regulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008738285
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Health-enhancing activities and the environment : how competition for resources makes the environmental policy beneficial
Pautrel, Xavier - 2009
sensitive to pollution, the weight of health in preferences is high, the polluting capacity of the production technology is high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008840055
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2C or not 2C?
Guivarch, Céline; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2011
Political attention has increasingly focused on limiting warming to 2°C. However, to date the only mitigation commitments accompanying this target are the so-called Copenhagen pledges, and these pledges appear to be inconsistent with the 2°C objective. Diverging opinions on whether this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380632
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Defensive investments and the demand for air quality : evidence from the NOx budget program and ozone reductions
Deschênes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael; Shapiro, Joseph S. - 2013
Demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments that improve health, but little research assesses the empirical importance of defenses. We study an important cap-and-trade market, which dramatically reduced NOx emissions, a key ingredient in ozone formation. A rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009788835