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Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines the effectiveness of India’s environmental ...
Politically Feasible Emission Target Formulas to Attain 460 ppm CO2 Concentrations
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
A new climate change treaty must plug three gaps: the absence of emission targets extending far into the future, the absence of participation by the United States, China, and other developing countries, and the absence of ...
The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon: Theory and Experience
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
Because of the global commons nature of climate change, international cooperation among nations will likely be necessary for meaningful action at the global level. At the same time, it will inevitably be up to the actions ...
Preventing the Next Fukushima
(AAAS, 2011)
While this year's disaster at Japan's Fukushima Dai'ichi plant, the worst since Chernobyl in 1986, was caused by the one-two punch of a huge earthquake followed by an immense tsunami—a disaster unlikely to occur in many ...
Standard Oil as a Technological Innovator
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
A century ago, in 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its path-breaking decision in the monopolization case against the Standard Oil Companies. Standard pleaded inter alia that its near-monopoly position was the result of ...
Promoting Clean Energy in the American Power Sector
(Brookings Institution, 2011)
Despite bipartisan interest in advancing American energy policy, comprehensive energy and climate legislation fell short in the Senate last year after passing in the House of Representatives in 2009. The difficulty of ...
Real-Time Economic Analysis and Policy Development During the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill posed near-term economic risks to the Gulf of Mexico region and raised questions about appropriate policies to mitigate catastrophic oil spill risks. This essay reviews the Obama ...
Addressing Catastrophic Risks: Disparate Anatomies Require Tailored Therapies
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
Catastrophic risks differ in terms of their natural or human origins, their possible amplification by human behaviors, and the relationships between those who create the risks and those who suffer the losses. Given their ...
Deterring and Compensating Oil Spill Catastrophes: The Need for Strict and Two-Tier Liablility
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill highlighted the glaring weakness in the current liability and regulatory regime for oil spills and for environmental catastrophes more broadly. This article proposes a new liability ...
The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
The pollution haven hypothesis suggests that unilateral domestic emission mitigation policies could cause adverse “competitiveness” impacts on domestic manufacturers as they lose market share to foreign competitors and ...