Designing for Policy Success

Designing a study for success.

Designing Power Systems for Mission Success

As cube-satellite (cubesat) systems become more widely developed and adopted by industry the development of effective and capable electrical power systems that can meet the needs of current and future payloads. This paper will discuss the current development conducted on the PolarCube electrical power system. The goal of the PolarCube mission is to create a 3D temperature profile of the atmosph...

Telemedicine Workplace Environments: Designing for Success

When designing a facility for telemedicine, there are several things to consider from a human factors point of view, as well as from a practicality point of view. Although the future practice of telemedicine is likely to be more of a mobile-based practice and centered more in the home than it is now, it is still very important to consider ways to optimize the design of clinic-based telemedicine...

Designing Climate Mitigation Policy

Global warming is one of the most critical, and also most daunting, challenges facing policymakers in the twenty-first century. Assessing a globally efficient time path for pricing or controlling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is difficult enough, with huge scientific uncertainties, disagreement over the ultimate goals of climate policy, and disagreement over which countries should bear most re...

Designing Instruments for Resource and Environmental Policy

Contents 1. Introduction 2. The need for policy instruments 3. The Range of Policy Options 4. The Selection and Design of Policy Instruments 4.1. Efficiency with heterogeneous abatement costs 4.2. Difficult monitoring of emissions (but complementarity with products) 4.3. Efficiency with heterogeneous damage costs 4.4. Uncertainty in damage costs and efficiency 4.5. Inter-temporal efficiency wit...