Integrated assessment models (IAMs) have emerged as key tools for building and assessing
long term climate mitigation scenarios. Due to their central role in the recent IPCC …

Conic optimization is a significant and thriving research area within the optimization
community. Conic optimization is the general class of problems concerned with optimizing a …

There are expanding national discussions on a critical number of energy-related issues
ranging from the importance of reducing air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions to …

Recent contributions by Brookes (1990), Saunders (1992), and Inhaber and Saunders
(1994) argue that cost‐effective improvements in energy efficiency may, in the long run, lead …

The climate policy debate has been dominated by economic estimates of the costs of
policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yet the models used to derive those …

As China's urban areas rapidly developed, prefecture-level cities faced challenges in the
coordinated development of the economy, society, energy, and environment (ESEE), which …

The climate change issue imposes us not only to change the way we produce and convert
energy but also to modify current energy consumption patterns. A substantial body of …

Standard economic theories of the firm (and other organizations) stress profit maximization
as the foundation for derivation of predictable behavior. Yet statistical and case-study …

Economics is an unavoidable decision-making tool in the field of climate policy. At the same
time, traditional economics is being challenged both empirically and theoretically by …

Wilderness protection is a growing necessity for modern societies, and this is particularly
true for areas where population density is extremely high, for example Europe …