Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "climate change"

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    • Climate Change and the Integrity of Science 

      Clark, William; Gleick, Peter H. (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2010)
      We are deeply disturbed by the recent escalation of political assaults on scientists in general and on climate scientists in particular. All citizens should understand some basic scientific facts. There is always some ...

    • 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 ...

    • Enhancing Food Security in an Era of Global Climate Change: An Executive Session on Grand Challenges of the Sustainability Transition 

      Clark, William; Kristjanson, Patti; Campbell, Bruce; Juma, Calestous; Holbrook, Noel Michele; Nelson, Gerald; Dickson, Nancy M. (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2010)
      The goal of the workshop was to build a more strategic and integrated perspective on the threats and opportunities latent in the food / climate issue, and to discuss the hard challenges of moving forward toward common goals ...

    • The Environmental Justice Dimensions of Climate Change 

      Miranda, Marie Lynn; Hastings, Douglas Andrew; Aldy, Joseph Edgar; Schlesinger, William H. (Mary Ann Liebert, 2011)
      Nations around the world are considering strategies to mitigate the severe impacts of climate change predicted to occur in the twenty-first century. Many countries, however, lack the wealth, technology, and government ...

    • The Fate of an Engineered Planet 

      Keith, David; Parker, Andy (Nature Publishing Group, 2013)
      Solar engineering and other exceptionally ambitious new technologies to deal with the reality of rising global temperatures come riddled with uncertainties. To illustrate how complex the problem is and what kind of challenges ...

    • Pricing Climate Risk Mitigation 

      Aldy, Joseph Edgar (Nature Publishing Group, 2015)
      Adaptation and geoengineering responses to climate change should be taken in account when estimating the social cost of carbon.

    • Using the Market to Address Climate Change: Insights from Theory & Experience 

      Aldy, Joseph Edgar; Stavins, Robert Norman (MIT Press, 2012)
      Emissions of greenhouse gases linked with global climate change are affected by diverse aspects of economic activity, including individual consumption, business investment, and government spending. An effective climate ...

    • Willingness to Pay and Political Support for a U.S. National Clean Energy Standard 

      Aldy, Joseph Edgar; Kotchen, Matthew J; Leiserowitz, Anthony A (Nature Publishing Group, 2012)
      In 2010 and 2011, Republicans and Democrats proposed mandating clean power generation in the electricity sector. To evaluate public support for a national clean energy standard (NCES), we conducted a nationally representative ...