Induced Innovation in a Decentralized Model of Climate Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Induced Innovation in a Decentralized Model of Climate Change write by Laurent-Lucchetti, Jérémy. This book was released on 2006. Induced Innovation in a Decentralized Model of Climate Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Entice
Entice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Entice write by David Popp. This book was released on 2003. Entice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite growing empirical evidence of the link between environmental policy and innovation, most economic models of environmental policy treat technology as exogenous. For long-term problems such as climate change, this omission can be significant. In this paper, I modify the DICE model of climate change (Nordhaus 1994, Nordhaus and Boyer 2000) to allow for induced innovation in the energy sector. Ignoring induced technological change overstates the welfare costs of an optimal carbon tax policy by 8.3 percent. However, cost-savings, rather than increased environmental benefits, appear to drive the welfare gains, as the effect of induced innovation on emissions and mean global temperature is small. Sensitivity analysis shows that potential crowding out of other R&D and market failures in the R&D sector are the most important limiting factors to the potential of induced innovation. Differences in these key assumptions explain much of the variation in the findings of other similar models
Technological Change and the Environment
Technological Change and the Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Technological Change and the Environment write by Arnulf Grübler. This book was released on 2010-09-30. Technological Change and the Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Much is written in the popular literature about the current pace of technological change. But do we have enough scientific knowledge about the sources and management of innovation to properly inform policymaking in technology dependent domains such as energy and the environment? While it is agreed that technological change does not 'fall from heaven like autumn leaves,' the theory, data, and models are deficient. The specific mechanisms that govern the rate and direction of inventive activity, the drivers and scope for incremental improvements that occur during technology diffusion, and the spillover effects that cross-fertilize technological innovations remain poorly understood. In a work that will interest serious readers of history, policy, and economics, the editors and their distinguished contributors offer a unique, single volume overview of the theoretical and empirical work on technological change. Beginning with a survey of existing research, they provide analysis and case studies in contexts such as medicine, agriculture, and power generation, paying particular attention to what technological change means for efficiency, productivity, and reduced environmental impacts. The book includes a historical analysis of technological change, an examination of the overall direction of technological change, and general theories about the sources of change. The contributors empirically test hypotheses of induced innovation and theories of institutional innovation. They propose ways to model induced technological change and evaluate its impact, and they consider issues such as uncertainty in technology returns, technology crossover effects, and clustering. A copublication o Resources for the Future (RFF) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
Decentralized Governance of Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa
Decentralized Governance of Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decentralized Governance of Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa write by Esbern Friis-Hansen. This book was released on 2017-07-12. Decentralized Governance of Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Two perspectives have dominated the social science discourse on climate change adaptation. Firstly, an international narrative among UN and donor agencies of technical and financial support for planned climate change adaptation. Secondly, a significant volume of studies discuss how local communities can undertake their own autonomous adaptation. Effective and sustainable climate adaptation requires a third focus: understanding of the political processes within sub-national institutions that mediate between national and local practices. This book address the knowledge gap that currently exists about the role of district-level institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa in providing an enabling institutional environment for rural climate change adaptation.
Global Warming and Climate Change (2 Vols.)
Global Warming and Climate Change (2 Vols.) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Warming and Climate Change (2 Vols.) write by V I Grover. This book was released on 2016-04-19. Global Warming and Climate Change (2 Vols.) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now as we stand at the crossroads, the steps taken by national governments, business communities and others involved in the negotiations will determine which path we will take as a world community, to mitigate and to adapt to climate change. As discussed in the book, in the coming years it is more politics than policies that will determine the way
