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… The objective of this project was to use both the travel cost method and the contingent valuation method to estimate Southern NewEngland residents’ willingness to pay (WTP) a premium for local forest products, clean drinking … providers of ecosystems services in a trial “Payments for Ecosystem Services” scheme. Future Activities In June 2012, the investigators were awarded a U.S. Forest Service State …
… Low productivity in agriculture is a significant development challenge, yet many processes used to increase land productivity have deleterious effects that actually reduce the long-run usability of … evidence on how best to leverage social network relationships to improve dissemination of new technologies. Here, the investigator marketed two different agricultural technologies: …
… Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs), using Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) to track and … to rely on zero-carbon energy throughout the day and year, and everywhere electricity is used. RPSs have been unable to achieve these goals due to inherent limitations of a market … they have proposed modifications to RPS markets, such as geographic limitations and time-of-use multipliers, to deliver meaningful environmental outcomes. These proposals tend to …
… operations. Combining these practices into one space creates an efficient and sustainable land-use system that benefits farmers, solar developers, rural communities, and the earth itself. This emerging form of renewable energy blends complementary landuses and eliminates the false “food or energy” …
… 2263 7453 Key Economic Benefits of Renewable Energy on Public Lands … Key Economic Benefits of Renewable Energy on Public Lands Nikki Springer (MBA '18, … from the Authors Dear Reader, We acknowledge that much of the world’s attention is now focused on confronting the many challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with the tragic loss … impacts and other conflicts, helping protect our extraordinary deserts, mountains, forests, and rivers for future generations. Though progress on implementation has slowed …
… in different settings to coordinate and create the institutions required to sustain a new market. What is interesting about renewable energy in general and offshore wind in … ethnographic interviews were conducted (some on-site in different states of NewEngland) with representatives of each of the relevant stakeholder groups including … and the analytical process in two academic conferences, where the work was well received. Use and Applicatons The identification of the case through this study has certainly informed …
… highlighted the hidden role it plays in the global economy. And, as fires set to clear land for palm oil plantations blazed in Indonesia throughout the fall of 2015, covering the … in haze, the ubiquitous commodity was placed under increased scrutiny. In addition to being used as a cooking oil, it is in our cookies, our shampoos, and is used as a biofuel. As a … responsible for 85% of palm oil production), more than 3.7 million hectares of natural forests have been cleared in recent years to make way for plantations. This landuse change …
… Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Clean Energy Sustainable Finance and ESG Maximizing LandUse Benefits From Utility-Scale Solar … Maximizing LandUse Benefits From Utility-Scale … may be a role for policy to spur the incorporation of pollinator-friendly practices in future solar development. That role becomes clearer when we evaluate the social benefits …
… Earth Day 2015 to examine the effectiveness of existing policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and identify new strategies. Connecticut’s government had already set a … generated in Connecticut and supplied about 15% of the power required for the NewEngland regional grid. The operating licenses for the two reactors were set to expire in 2035 … a recommendation about Millstone, by early 2017. Equity and Justice Clean Energy The Future of Nuclear in Connecticut … The Future of Nuclear in Connecticut Bryan Garcia, the …
… data was compiled by a joint-degree master’s student to help create a set of scenarios of future capital and variable costs associated with different electricity generating … To create these scenarios, a review was required of the current cost assumptions used in other analyses and recent studies undertaken estimating the future costs of … to simulate the impacts that different policy scenarios (e.g., direct subsidies, taxes, renewable portfolio standards) will have on the cost scenarios developed in stage two. This …