Title of Dissertation: Dissertation Directed By: ENERGY TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION Haewon C. McJeon, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Professor Matthias Ruth School of Public Policy This dissertation examines the role that technology plays in climate change mitigation. It contains three essays each focusing on different aspects of the process in which advancements in low-car...

The authors present a graphical framework to evaluate the implied CO2 abatement costs that can be used by policymakers and resource planners to provide clarity on cost-effective policy design, and on the implications of planning decisions for meeting future de-carbonization goals. The framework would allow for comparison of alternative investments, while distinguishing the extent, type and timi...

This paper answers three questions related to the discrete nature of pollution abatement: (i) does a source's incremental control cost (as defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) necessarily exceed its average control cost, (ii) is incremental control cost a better approximation of a source's willingness to pay for abatement credits than average control cost, and (iii) exactly how ...

Ž . This paper investigates the significance of induced technological change ITC for the attractiveness of CO abatement policies. We use analytical and numerical general equilib2 rium models in which technological change results from profit-maximizing investments in R&D. We show that carbon abatement policies have very different impacts on R&D across industries, and do not necessarily raise the...

In this paper, we examine the design of permit trading programs when the objective is to minimize the cost of achieving an ex ante pollution target, that is, one that is defined in expectation rather than an ex post deterministic value. We consider two potential sources of uncertainty, the presence of either of which can make our model appropriate: incomplete information on abatement costs and ...

Noise pollution is a major problem nowadays. In urban context, road traffic the main source of noise pollution. People directly exposed to suffer from moderate severe annoyance, headache, stress, feeling exhaustion, and reduced work performance efficiency. As sources severity continue grow, new approaches are needed reduce exposure. this research, abatement has been investigated using computer ...