AIChE offers technological insights to the public policy debate on global climate change

2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. F2-F4 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Gushee
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Policy Debate

scholarly journals Uncertain Seasons in the El Niño Continent: Local and Global Views

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Libby Robin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
The State ◽  
Seasonal Patterns ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Local Weather

As global climate change shifts seasonal patterns, local and uncertain seasons of Australia have global relevance. Australia’s literature tracks extreme local weather events, exploring ‘slow catastrophes’ and ‘endurance.’ Humanists can change public policy in times when stress is a state of life, by reflecting on the psyches of individuals, rather than the patterns of the state. ‘Probable’ futures, generated by mathematical models that predict nature and economics, have little to say about living with extreme weather. Hope is not easily modelled. The frameworks that enable hopeful futures are qualitatively different. They can explore the unimaginable by offering an ‘interior apprehension.’

Incorporating Energy Criteria in Intermodal Transportation Policy Decisions

1996 ◽  
Vol 1522 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-86
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Bester
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Growth Management ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Analysis Methods

Regional and local governments are collectively responsible for maintaining the economic health of their communities and managing traffic congestion, air quality, land use, and other related growth-management issues. Yet global climate change and air quality problems result from the consumption of energy in the production of goods and services that help sustain the economy. Public policy solutions to such problems are often difficult to design because of the interrelated nature of the environment, economic activities, and the infrastructure that links them together. A conceptual framework for thinking about the market behavior of consumers and producers as cost minimizers and offering a new way to design public policies using economic and energy efficiency goals is presented for the use of public-policy makers. Production theory can be used to explain how land, vehicles, infrastructure, and energy are combined to produce transportation goods and services. Heat and waste by-products from the production process act as the precursors of air pollution and other global climate-change problems. If public policies are designed to minimize such problems, policy analysis methods need to include those factors that help determine the cost and benefits of prospective policy alternatives, as well as information on how the net benefits of such policies are redistributed in society. A list of criteria to use in selecting analysis methods for this purpose is suggested.

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