Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "Sustainability"

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    • Ecosystem Stewardship: Sustainability Strategies for a Rapidly Changing Planet 

      Clark, William; Chapin, F. Stuart; Carpenter, Stephen R.; Kofinas, Gary P.; Folke, Carl; Abel, Nick; Olsson, Per; Smith, D. Mark Stafford; Walker, Brian; Young, Oran R.; Berkes, Fikret; Biggs, Reinette; Grove, J. Morgan; Naylor, Rosamond L.; Pinkerton, Evelyn; Steffen, Will; Swanson, Frederick J (Elsevier, 2010)
      Ecosystem stewardship is an action-oriented framework intended to foster social-ecological sustainability of a rapidly changing planet. Recent developments identify three strategies that make optimal use of current ...

    • The Problem of the Commons: Still Unsettled After 100 Years 

      Stavins, Robert Norman (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
      The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when Katharine Coman led off the first issue of the American Economic Review. As the U.S. and other economies ...

    • Rethinking the Federal Bias Toward Homeownership 

      Glaeser, Edward Ludwig (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2011)
      The most fundamental fact about rental housing in the United States is that rental units are overwhelmingly in multifamily structures. This fact surely reflects the agency problems associated with renting single-family ...

    • Sustainable Cooperation in Global Climate Policy: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets 

      Bosetti, Valentina; Frankel, Jeffrey A. (John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2012)
      We explore a framework that could be used to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across all countries, one budget period at a time, as envisioned at the December 2011 negotiations in ...

    • Will Electric Cars Transform the U.S. Market 

      Lee, Henry; Grant, Lovellette (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
      For the past forty years, United States Presidents have repeatedly called for a reduction in the country's dependence on fossil fuels in general and foreign oil specifically. Stronger efficiency standards and higher taxes ...