Climate change is more uncertain, more
global, and more long-term than most issues facing humanity. This
trifecta makes a policy…
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The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill highlighted the glaring weaknesses in the current liability and regulatory regime for oil spills and for…
Catastrophic risks differ in terms of their natural or human origins, their possible amplification by human behaviors, and the…
Economic activity can damage natural systems and reduce the flow of ecosystem services. The harms can be substantial, as our case studies…
Early on the morning of April 21, 2010, a BP official called to alert me that a Gulf of Mexico rig under contract to BP suffered a major…
Federal, state, and local
governments use a variety of incentives to induce consumer adoption of
hybrid-electric vehicles. We study the…
We study the diffusion of hybrid vehicles among consumers. Using data on sales of 11 different models over seven years, we identify the…
There is a low but uncertain probability that climate change could trigger “mega-catastrophes,” severe and at least partly irreversible…
The article focuses on the effort of the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama to try a new level of trust on science in resolving…
The eruption of Mount Nyiragongo has made the situation dramatically worse for the people of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. But this…