Download or read book Three Essays in Green Technology and Environmental Policy written by Eleni Stathopoulou and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Economic Modeling and Environmental Policy Evaluation written by Ziqian Gong (Ph. D. in applied economics) and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is composed of three chapters economic modeling and environmental policy evaluation. The first chapter explores the conflicts between preserving natural resources and economic activities. This paper establishes a model to estimate the threshold for the landowners to preserve the natural resource or do economic activities by taking the potential option value (from uncertainty and the irreversibility) into account when they need to decide between these two choices. By employing the real options theory with the numerical method, we could evaluate how the choices will be made towards this dilemma from the perspective of landowners. As an application, the result could provide a reliable and precise policy indication for the government to perform a more rational compensation policy toward natural resource protection than before. The second chapter investigates the impact of monetary policy on climate change. Climate change has been recognized as the most significant externality of today’s global economy. Current research has been predominantly focused on fiscal policy, which will be subject to the political environment. This paper establishes a dynamic general equilibrium model of a closed economy to find the optimal monetary policy under climate change to reduce carbon emissions and encourage the application of renewable energy. We evaluate how renewable energy firms, fossil fuel energy firms, and general goods production firms will respond to different monetary policies from the central bank. As an application, our results could provide a reliable policy tool for decision-makers to meet specific climate goals and encourage a transition to renewable energy. The third chapter provides a way to do the sustainability analysis of the Great Lakes region. The economic impact of climate change on key economic sectors has been studied for a long time. This study established an integrated energy- environmental-economic dynamic recursive computable general equilibrium model. Using this spatial computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, we show how to analyze environmental sustainability and individual well-being resulting from changes in the Great Lakes area’s complex economic and environmental systems. Our general equilibrium framework models interactions between human (economic, behavioral, social) and the environment and represent the interactions between local, regional, national, and global systems across space. This paper provides a tool to understand these linkages between economic agents and different sectors for the policymakers. So, they could use our work to assess the risk that may impact agriculture, energy, and manufacturing sectors under climate change and devise a related policy to maximize the welfare of its population and economy sustainably.

Download or read book Three Essays in Environmental Economics and Policy written by Emma Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Journey to Green Economies written by James A. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As problems like rising temperatures, declines in global biodiversity, and the great pacific garbage patch can attest, environmental sustainability is arguably emerging as the issue of the 21st century. It is also an issue that holds the ignominy of being highly complex, and likely to influence every aspect of government and modern society. For many of the most difficult problems in environmental sustainability, like climate change or sustainable development, the pursuit of long-term sustainability is as much about the journey as it is the outcome. Across three essays connected by public policy, markets, and the environment, I detail some of the ways demand for greater environmental sustainability will change governments, firms, and society. I also offer a pathway for future research in environmental governance, environmental policy, and education.In chapter one, I explore the potential impact of unseasonably warm and cold temperatures, as expressed as variations from monthly averages, and particulate matter pollution (PM2.5), on three measures of input productivity for firms engaged in manufacturing: labor, capital, and total factor productivity (TFP). Results suggest that value-added labor, capital, and TFP are negatively affected by large variations in daily average temperatures. Both value-added labor and TFP are adversely affected by unseasonable warmth, while value-added capital is affected by unseasonable cold. Labor productivity is also negatively affected by increases in PM2.5. If climate change produces a warmer climate and less stable daily temperatures, this will have important implications for how firms allocate resources between labor, capital, and technology, and have ramifications for both labor markets and climate change adaptation policy.In chapter two, I exploit the unique longitudinal characteristics of the Thomson Reuters ESG database to investigate whether investors support efforts by firms to become more environmentally sustainable. Across three regions and three categories of environmental corporate social responsibility, I find evidence that investors often penalize firms for their environmental efforts. In North America, investors penalize firms for emissions efficiency and overall environmentalism; in Asia Pacific, they penalize resource efficiency; and in Europe, investors penalize environmental innovation and overall environmentalism. Globally, results show that a one unit increase in firm-level environmentalism on a 0-100 scale reduces market capitalization by about 75 cents per $100 of total capitalization. Likewise, building a passive portfolio of the top 10 percent of environmentally friendly firms underperforms the broader market. On average globally, investing $10,000 in the top 10 percent of firms for average environmentalism reduces the hypothetical investor's annual returns by about $129.In chapter three, I investigate environmental sustainability within the context of Public Administration (PA). While greater preemptive research in environmental sustainability is needed, I show that PA research generally lags political and social changes to administrative organizations. I review the philosophical and practical difficulties of environmental sustainability as it relates to public administration, and I develop a framework for future research. Finally, I review MPA programs to see how environmental sustainability is treated by the field, and how PA is engaging with future researchers. Of the top 18 PA departments with MPA programs, four offer a specialized masters with a focus on sustainability, with nine offering at least one course using sustainability as the primary pedagogical tool. Teaching is primarily conducted by non-PA scholars, suggesting PA lacks proprietary knowledge of environmental sustainability.

Download or read book Accelerating Green Innovation written by Michael Migendt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Migendt explains the role of alternative investments in supporting the growth of a sustainable economy and recognizes levers that policy makers, managers and entrepreneurs could use for further accelerating green innovation through finance. He focuses on specific examples of alternative investments into green industries, companies, projects, and infrastructure, covering the developments along the innovation chain. Especially the acceleration of green technologies and the in this context occurring interrelations between the three areas of finance, innovation, and policy are key to this work.

Download or read book Three Essays Of Economics And Policy On Renewable Energy And Energy Efficiency written by Yuxi Meng and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In face of the crisis in energy security, environmental contamination, and climate change, energy saving and carbon emission reduction have become the top concerns of the whole human world. To address those concerns, renewable energy and energy efficiency are the two fields that many countries are paying attention to, which are also my research focus. The dissertation consists of three papers, including the innovation behavior of renewable energy producers, the impact of renewable energy policy on renewable innovation, and the market feedback to energy efficient building benchmarking ordinance.Here are the main conclusions I have reached in this dissertation. First, through the study on foreign patenting intention with the case study of Chinese solar PV industry, I looked at the patenting behaviors of 15 non-Chinese solar PV producers in solar PV technologies in China, and pointed out that foreign firms may file patents in the home country or production base of their competitors in order to earn the competitive edge in the global market. The second study is about the "Innovation by Generating" process. I specifically focused on Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) in the United States and the innovation performance within each state, and found out that wind power generation in RPS states has developed rapidly after the adoption of RPS, while the "Innovating by Generating" effect is more significant in solar PV technologies. In general, the innovations of the two technology groups are not prominently encouraged by RPS. My last study is about the benchmarking law and market response in the scenario of Philadelphia Benchmarking Law. By comparing the rental rate of LEED/EnergyStar buildings and ordinary buildings in the city of Philadelphia before and after the adoption of the building energy efficiency benchmarking law, I believe that the passage of Philadelphia Benchmarking Law may be helpful in improving the public awareness and understanding of energy efficiency information of buildings.

Download or read book Essays on Environmental Policy and Green Technological Innovation written by Tongxi Zhao and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissertation studies the relationship between environmental policy and green technological innovation. It is a case study of California Global Warming Solutions-AB 32. In Chapter 1, I discuss the literature background and show graphical analyses of my data regarding green patent applications and energy prices in California.

Download or read book Green Leviathan written by Inger Weibust and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US, Switzerland and Canada are wealthy democracies that should be conducive to effective decentralized or cooperative environmental policy-making. However, a closer examination of their environmental policy over many decades finds no evidence that these approaches have worked. So does it matter which level of government makes policy? Can cooperation between sub-national governments protect the environment? Building on comparative case studies on air and water pollution and making use of extensive historical material, Inger Weibust questions how governance structure affects environmental policy performance in the US, Switzerland, Canada and the European Union. The research breaks new ground by studying formal and informal environmental cooperation. It analyzes whether federal systems with more centralized policy-making produce stricter environmental policies and debates whether devolution and the establishment of subsidiaries will lead to less environmental protection. An essential insight into the complexities of policy-making and governance structures, this book is an important contribution to the growing debates surrounding comparative federalism and multi-level governance.

Download or read book Green Technologies Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 2156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications assembles the most up-to-date collection of research results and recent discoveries in environmental and green technology. This comprehensive anthology covers a wide range of topics, i

Download or read book Three Essays on Political Institutions and Environmental Governance written by Marion Marie Dumas and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It shows that the reshaping of laws by citizens and courts after their enactment by the legislature might improve the decision process of the legislature and the public good outcomes that ensue. Chapter two is an empirical analysis of the dynamics of environmental legal rules. It uses the network of citations to legal precedent to test whether the dynamic body of law governing the environment is driven by political shifts in power or follows a process that is autonomous from these shifts in power. The results suggest that environmental law is now constitutionalized - its main principles entrenched in democratic culture rather than subject to the ebb and flow of democratic turnover of power. Chapter three also considers the dynamic aspects of governance. It uses a computational model to examine how political parties with different ideological commitments towards renewable energy might strategically use the path-dependence of technological transitions to shape policy over the long-term. It also examines how electoral pressures might constrain or help them in this endeavor.

Download or read book Three Essays in Search of a Conversation written by Sherman Lewis and published by Hayward Area Planning Association. This book was released on 2022-08-27 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays are for Americans concerned about the future of our country and for policy wonks. By and large, the political process is controlled by those who take an intertest in politics, large in number but small as a percent of population. Are you a member of the political class? Membership is voluntary. Our first 800 years of thinking: science culture and empathy from the Enlightenment ~1600 to ~ 2400 The Crisis of the Anthropocene: The most comprehensive description of all issues of the crisis in less than 100 pages. For the purpose of going through your mind to influence your brain. Musings on our Present Discontent: America, not advanced, not a democracy. Right to life for baby; right to choose for mom. Taxation. The security of a free state. Issues not discussed. The threat from within, Trumpism. The threat from without: Putinism. How to participate. Renewal.

Download or read book Green Technologies and Business Practices An IT Approach written by Ordóñez de Pablos, Patricia and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green technology plays an important role in the achievement of environmental sustainability. Tax incentives, carbon taxes, and rising fossil fuel costs are motivating increased growth and development of 'green' products and services, many of which are the result of innovative discoveries in biotechnology and nanotechnology. Green Technologies and Business Practices: An IT Approach is an international platform that brings together academics, researchers, lecturers, policy makers, practitioners, and persons in decision-making positions from all backgrounds who ultimately share new theories, research findings and case studies, together enhancing understanding and collaboration of green issues in business and the role of information technologies and also analyze recent developments in theory and practice. Furthermore, this book demonstrates the capacity of green models and policies, information technology and management for the mutual understanding, prosperity and overall well-being of all the citizens in the world. This title is perfect for politicians, professors, policy makers, government officers, and students alike.

Download or read book Essays on Technology and the Environment from an International Perspective written by Geoffrey Barrows and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dissertation, I present three essays that consider the environmental consequences of technological change, from an international perspective. The first two chapters use firm-level production data to estimate the response of CO2 emission intensity to changes in competition in foreign markets. The first chapter estimates this response with respect to foreign demand shocks, i.e., a positive shock to exports. The second chapter exploits a specific liberalization episode to estimate the impact with respect to foreign competition shocks, i.e., a negative shock to exports. Both papers are co-authored with Helene Ollivier. The final chapter analyzes the decision to adopt genetically engineered seeds in different countries around the world, and the attendant impacts on supply and land-use. This last chapter is co-authored with David Zilberman and Steven Sexton and was previously published in Environment and Development Economics. The first chapter investigates the impact of exporting on the CO2 emission intensity of manufacturing firms in India. Recent papers have argued that export market access encourages firms to upgrade technology, which lowers the emission intensity of production; however, data limitations confound previous attempts to separately identify productivity impacts from simultaneous changes in prices and product-mix. We present a model of how these alternative channels could also explain the results documented in the literature. Then, using a highly detailed production dataset of large Indian manufacturing firms that contains information on physical units of inputs and outputs by product, we are able to decompose the overall firm impact into three components -- prices, product-mix, and technology. Export impacts at the firm level are identified from import demand shocks of foreign trading partners. We find that prices systematically bias down estimates of emission intensity in value, that firms adjust emission intensity in quantity through changing output shares across products, but that firms do not lower emission intensity within products over time (technology). The results imply that the productivity benefits from market integration alone are not enough to induce clean technology adoption. The second chapter investigates the ``third-party'' impact of trade liberalization on the environmental performance of firms in countries that lose market share as a result of the liberalization. If competition matters for exporting (as previous research indicates), and exporting matters for emission intensity, then emission intensity reductions in liberalized markets may be offset by emission intensity increases in countries peripheral to the liberalization. To test for this indirect effect, we exploit quasi-natural variation arising from the elimination of quota constraints on textile and apparel exports to the US between 1994 and 2007. Using a detailed panel of production and emission data at the firm-product level, we find that Indian exporters in Prowess lost on average 14% export sales as a result of liberalized trade between the US and India's competitors. This loss of export sales was accompanied by an increase in CO2 intensity of 9%. The results do not appear to be due to fuel-switching, but there is suggestive evidence that capital investments and switching to higher emission intensity varieties may have played a role. Overall, the results support the importance of international competition for production and pollution decisions of firms around the world. The final chapter uses aggregate data to estimate supply, price, land-use, and greenhouse gas impacts of genetically engineered (GE) seed adoption due both to increased yield per hectare (intensive margin) and increased planted area (extensive margin). An adoption model with profitability and risk considerations distinguishes between the two margins, where the intensive margin results from direct ``gene" impacts and higher complementary input use, and the extensive margin reflects the growing range of lands that become profitable with the GE technology. We identify yield increases from cross-country time series variation in GE adoption share within the main GE crops- cotton, corn, and soybeans. We find that GE increased yields 34% for cotton, 12% for corn and 3% for soybeans. We then estimate quantity of extensive margin lands from year-to-year changes in traditional and GE planted area. If all production on the extensive margin is attributed to GE technology, the supply effect of GE increases from 5% to 12% for corn, 15% to 20% for cotton, and 2% to 40% for soybeans, generating significant downward pressure on prices. Finally, we compute ``saved" lands and greenhouse gases as the difference between observed hectarage per crop and counterfactual hectarage needed to generate the same output without the yield boost from GE. We find that all together, GE saved 13 million hectares of land from conversion to agriculture in 2010, and averted emissions are equivalent to roughly 1/8 the annual emissions from automobiles in the US.

Download or read book Sustainable Green Technologies for Environmental Management written by Shachi Shah and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Earth is considered as a natural system which organizes and controls itself. However, the present scale of anthropogenic activity is unprecedented in the history of mankind compelling the intelligentia to ponder over the scientific causes of the problems, processes and sustainable and pragmatic solutions. The current rate of resource use and consumption pattern are depleting the planet’s finite resources and damaging life-supporting ecosystems. A large number of toxic substances are increasingly found in air, water, soil, and flora and fauna. We are in the midst of a period of increasing interconnected and complex global challenges that seek action across temporal and spatial scales, diverse sectors, and concerted efforts from global citizens. The environment on account of human’s action has been experiencing imbalances and ecological catastrophe. Environmental issues like global climate change, biodiversity loss, the rapid depletion of natural resources, degradation of global commons, stratospheric ozone depletion have been restricting the safe operating space and transgressing the planetary boundaries endangering the existence of human societies. The global environmental problems if not scientifically managed may end up in the civilizational collapse. Nevertheless, the underlying commonality among these environmental issues is interrelatedness, complexity, and difficulty in identifying and implementing solutions. The global environmental challenges can be managed by adopting sustainable green technologies which dovetails the principles of environmental sustainability with social and ecological sustainability. Green growth is construed as a new development paradigm that sustains economic growth while at the same time ensuring environmental sustainability.

Download or read book Information Technology and Sustainability written by Lorenz M. Hilty and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2008 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are contributing both to environmental problems and to their solution. Will ICT producers, users and recyclers be the major polluters of tomorrow, or will 'Green IT' and a dematerialized information society save the climate? This book provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between ICT and sustainable development, culminating in 15 recommendations - to producers, users and political decision makers - which show the way to a sustainable information society. Keywords: Information Technology, Environment, Sustainable Development, Environmental Informatics, Green IT, Green Computing, Data Centers, Energy Efficiency, Resource Productivity, Dematerialization, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), E-waste, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), Recycling, Technological Complexity, Critical Information Infrastructure, Open Standards, Rebound Effect.

Download or read book Annals of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics written by Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Introduction to Green Science and Technology for Green Economy written by Pen-Chi Chiang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focused specifically on the newly emerging issues related to the development of green science/technology, and green economy toward Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It covers three parts, namely (1) socioeconomic science, (2) environmental science, and (3) development of green technology and economy, each consisting of five to six chapters. The topics covered are meant not only to introduce the basic concepts of green science and technology related to the development of green economy, but also address the challenges, policy instruments, international initiatives and prospective and perspective. More importantly, it presents several innovative idea, indicators and methodologies regarding the measurement of industrial transformation, resource efficiency, green competitiveness, and green trade. To facilitate research innovation/integration and meet the needs for comprehensive education on sustainable development, the book covers a wide range of sectors of major concern in the development of green technology and economy, including green energy, green transportation, green building, green agriculture, and green tourism. The book also features innovation technology and integrated management pervasively adopted worldwide and several unanimous case studies. This book serves a wide range of readers from students, researchers, engineers, policy makers, and entrepreneurs with the emerging challenges, new concepts, innovative methodologies, and integrated strategies it provides. The insights shared from the case studies are also illustrative and inspiring.