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Global warming, sea level rise, and extreme weather events have made climate change a top priority for policymakers across the globe. But which policies are best suited to tackle the enormous challenges presented by our changing climate? This Article proposes that policymakers turn to prediction...
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This paper sheds light on an implicit dimension of the climate policy debate: the extent to which supply-side response (emission-reducing energy technologies) may substitute for the transformation of consumption behavior and thus help get around the political difficulties surrounding such...
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Although NOAA global temperature change data are deterministic rather than statistical, this paper suggests a method of approximating what the variance might be were temperature actually described by a polynomial corrupted with statistical measurement noise (errors). It is a novel and simple...
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This paper sheds light on an implicit dimension of the climate policy debate: the extent to which supply-side response (emission-reducing energy technologies) may substitute for the transformation of consumption behavior and thus help get around the political difficulties surrounding such...
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Unethical pro-organisational behaviour (UPB) is an ongoing concern, prompting the need for more nuanced understanding of the workplace environment most likely to inhibit it. This study considers the role of risk climate, sometimes referred to as risk culture, as well as ethical climate, for...
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Much of energy policy is driven by concerns about climate change. Views about the importance of carbon emissions affect debates on topics ranging from the regulation of electricity generation and transmission to the need for incentives to develop and promote emerging technologies. Government...
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Efforts to reduce emissions to counter climate change are expected to have both costs andbenefits, and these effects are likely to be unevenly distributed across the population. Weexamined the potential distributional impacts on employment in New Zealand from usingdifferent mitigation options...
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