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Student-Authored Publications on Energy, Environment, and Infrastructure

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Sep 20, 2012

An Outline of Strategies for Building an Innovation System for Knowledge City

Knowledge City is a planned environmentally and technologically advanced city in China's Guangzhou Development District. This report outlines a set of strategies to help the city attract and retain high-tech firms and their workers.

Keith Crane, Howard J. Shatz, Shanthi Nataraj, Steven W. Popper, Xiao Wang
Jan 10, 2012

Threats Without Threateners? Exploring Intersections of Threats to the Global Commons and National Security

National security implications and interconnections are explored among climate change, water scarcity, and pandemics, using examples of familiar and new policy approaches to inspire innovative thinking about threats to the global commons.

Gregory F. Treverton, Erik Nemeth, Sinduja Srinivasan
Jan 1, 2012

Robust Climate Policies Under Uncertainty: A Comparison of Robust Decision-Making and Info-Gap Methods

This study compares two widely used approaches for robustness analysis of decision problems: the info-gap method originally developed by Ben-Haim and the robust decision making (RDM) approach originally developed by Lempert, Popper, and Bankes.

Jim W. Hall, Robert J. Lempert, Klaus Keller, Andrew Hackbarth, Christophe Mijere, David J. McInerney
Jan 1, 2012

Scenario Uncertainties in Estimating Direct Land-Use Change Emissions in Biomass-To-Energy Life Cycle Assessment

The use of biomass for energy production has increasingly been encouraged in the United States, in part motivated by the potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions relative to fossil fuels.

Aimee E. Curtright, David R. Johnson, Henry H. Willis, Timothy Skone
Oct 27, 2011

Characterizing the U.S. Industrial Base for Coal-Powered Electricity

This monograph reviews interviews with stakeholders in the U.S. domestic coal-based electricity generation industry and data describing key elements of industry capability and validation or verification of concerns about it.

Constantine Samaras, Jeffrey A. Drezner, Henry H. Willis, Evan Bloom
Oct 1, 2011

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Hospital Care Resulting from Air Pollution in Excess of Federal Standards

This study investigates racial and ethnic disparities in hospital admission and emergency room visit rates resulting from exposure to ozone and fine particulate matter levels in excess of federal standards ("excess attributable risk").

Andrew Hackbarth, John A. Romley, Dana P. Goldman
Sep 22, 2011

Recommended Research Priorities for the Qatar Foundation's Environment and Energy Research Institute

The Qatar Foundation is establishing a national research institute to conduct energy, environment, and water research. This book recommends research priorities for the institute and reports on a survey of related research institutions in the region.

Nidhi Kalra, Obaid Younossi, Kristy N. Kamarck, Sarah Al-Dorani, Gary Cecchine, Aimee E. Curtright, Chaoling Feng, Aviva Litovitz, David R. Johnson, Mohammed Makki, Shanthi Nataraj, David S. Ortiz, Parisa Roshan, Constantine Samaras
Jul 29, 2011

Near-Term Opportunities for Integrating Biomass into the U.S. Electricity Supply: Technical Considerations

Biomass is an increasingly important source of electricity, heat, and liquid fuel. This report examines changes to power plants and their operations, costs of cofiring biomass, and logistical issues associated with delivering biomass to the plant.

David S. Ortiz, Aimee E. Curtright, Constantine Samaras, Aviva Litovitz, Nicholas E. Burger
Jul 1, 2011

Incorporating Uncertainty Analysis Into Life Cycle Estimates of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Biomass Production

This paper provides a framework for incorporating uncertainty analysis specifically into estimates of the life cycle GHG emissions from the production of biomass.

David R. Johnson, Henry H. Willis, Aimee E. Curtright, Constantine Samaras, Timothy Skone
Jul 1, 2011

Technology Interactions Among Low-Carbon Energy Technologies: What Can We Learn from a Large Number of Scenarios?

This paper uses a combinatorial approach in which scenarios are created for all combinations of the technology development assumptions that underlie a smaller, representative set of scenarios.

Haewon C. McJeon, Leon Clarke, Page Kyle, Marshall Wise, Andrew Hackbarth, Benjamin P. Bryant, Robert J. Lempert
Mar 29, 2011

Supplying Biomass to Power Plants: A Model of the Costs of Utilizing Agricultural Biomass in Cofired Power Plants

Biomass energy is a renewable resource with lower life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions than fossil fuels. The model described here estimates cost and availability of these resources from U.S. agricultural lands for an individual power plant.

Tom LaTourrette, David S. Ortiz, Eileen Hlavka, Nicholas E. Burger, Gary Cecchine
Feb 15, 2010

Cost and Health Consequences of Air Pollution in California

Examines how California's failure to meet federal air quality standards has affected hospitalizations and insurers' costs.

John A. Romley, Andrew Hackbarth, Dana P. Goldman

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