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The socioeconomic drivers of China’s primary PM 2.5 emissions
(IOP Publishing, 2014)
Primary PM2.5 emissions contributed significantly to poor air quality in China. We present an interdisciplinary study to measure the magnitudes of socioeconomic factors in driving primary PM2.5 emission changes ...
Lessons for Ecological Policy Design: A Case Study of Ecosystem Management
(Elsevier BV, 1979-06)
This paper explores the prospects for combining elements of the ecological and policy sciences to form a substantive and effective science of ecological policy design. This exploration is made through a case study whose ...
Redistribution in a model of voting and campaign contributions
(Elsevier BV, 2011)
I propose a framework in which individual political participation can take two distinct forms, voting and contributing resources to campaigns, in a context in which the negligible impact of any individual’s actions on ...
Inefficient lobbying, populism and oligarchy
(Elsevier BV, 2007)
This paper analyses the efficiency consequences of lobbying in a production economy with imperfect commitment. We first show that the Pareto efficiency result found for truthful equilibria of common agency games in static ...
Displaced: A Proposal for International Law to Protect Refugees, Migrants, and States
(Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository, 2016)
How can international law better protect both international security and the human rights of people fleeing violence? International refugee law protects only the refugees: those fleeing across borders due to a well-founded ...
Looking at Ourselves: Thoughts on Process and Product in Applied Systems Analysis
(International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1975-09)
This paper raises some issues concerning the practice and utilization of applied systems analysis (ASA). Our present concept of good ASA necessarily implies two assumptions: (1) It is socially desirable to make decisions ...
Notes on Resilience Measures
(1975-07)
The author presents some points taken from his notes on a Resilience Measures Presentation by C.S. Holling (IIASA, 11 July 1975) and suggests that they should probably be dealt with explicitly before a final document is prepared.
Infrastructure Investment Priorities for Rebalancing China’s Economy
(East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, 2022-06-29)