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by James Stewart December 2015

With COP21 currently taking place in Paris, the thoughts of UNU-WIDER Research Fellow Channing Arndt on the past and future of the climate change...

• Renewable energy
• Climate change

Working Paper

The Mekong River is the major water source in Southeast Asia and shared by six countries. There is a rush to acquire sources of alternative energy and other benefits to meet the growing demand for water and energy, while China and Myanmar have...

• Environment
• Game theory
• International relations

Working Paper

The present study develops a reliability assessment method of wind resource using optimum reservoir target power operations that maximizes the firm generation of integrated wind and hydro power. A combined water resources model for a system of...

• Mathematical models
• Environment
• Infrastructure (Economics)

Working Paper

We link a bottom-up energy sector model to a recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium model of South Africa in order to examine two of the country’s main energy policy considerations: (i) the introduction of a carbon tax and (ii)...

• Carbon tax
• Economic policy
• Economic equilibrium

Working Paper

The present study aims to explore economic and socio-demographic factors that influence the household’s probability to switch from firewood to clean fuels in northern Cameroon. The paper employs an ordered probit model to construct cooking patterns...

• Households
• Renewable energy
• Technological innovations

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries

• Households
• Renewable energy
• Technological innovations

Journal Article

This paper jointly evaluates the greenhouse gas emissions and economic impacts from producing biofuels in Tanzania. Sequentially-linked models capture natural resource constraints; emissions from land use change; economywide growth linkages; and...

• Agriculture
• Environment and economic development
• Economic equilibrium

Working Paper

South Africa hopes to expand wind and solar power. Success depends on how and where to deploy the technologies. This study develops a 10-year database of expected power generation for these technologies across South Africa. A power system model...

• Electric utilities
• Renewable energy
• Technology

Book Chapter

Part of Book Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

• Foreign aid
• Emissions
• Green cities

Working Paper

This paper evaluates the greenhouse gas emissions and economic impacts from producing biofuels in Tanzania. Sequentially-linked models capture natural resource constraints; emissions from land use change; economywide growth linkages; and household...

• Agriculture
• Environment and economic development
• Economic equilibrium

Working Paper

• Environmental policy
• Natural disasters
• Renewable energy

Working Paper

The past reliance on historical observed weather patterns for future investment in basic infrastructure planning (e.g., irrigation schemes, hydropower plants, roads, etc.) has been questioned considerably in recent years. For this reason, efforts to...

• Agriculture
• Climate change
• Public investments

Working Paper

Climate change is an issue that requires global attention and co-operation. As climate science develops an understanding of changes to the future climate state, policy makers and engineering project planners beg to know what claims can be made on the...

• Climate change
• Power resources
• Renewable energy

Working Paper

Producing electricity from wind is attractive because it provides a clean, low-maintenance power supply. However, wind resource is intermittent on various time scales, thus introducing variability in power output that is difficult for electric grid...

• Infrastructure (Economics)
• Power resources
• Renewable energy

Working Paper

Ethiopia is powering ahead with an ambitious energy development strategy, highly reliant on abundant hydropower potential. A changing climate, including uncertain water supply, however, may pose a salient challenge to meeting expected targets...

• Climate change
• Simulation methods (Economics)
• Natural resources