economics
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Can Tariffs Lead to a More Circular Economy?
While controversial and often politically divisive, tariffs may have the opportunity to shift production and consumption patterns toward sustainability.
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Belinda Archibong: Estimating the Health and Economic Costs of Gas Flaring
In one of her projects, the environmental economist will quantify how air pollution from gas flaring affects human health and cognitive development in children.
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How Religion Influences Our Relationship With the Environment
A new study looks at the links between religion and attitudes toward the environment.
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A New Way to Calculate the Price of Carbon Pollution
How to set carbon prices that are consistent with goals of both climate experts and economists.
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New Model for Pricing Carbon Will Help Meet Net-Zero Climate Change Goals
A new approach to carbon pricing avoids the pitfalls of calculating the social costs of carbon.
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Cayte Bosler: Chronicler of Wilderness Conservation
Cayte is an explorer, an environmental journalist and conservationist, and a student in Columbia’s Sustainability Management masters program.
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Pod of the Planet Ep.4: Drawing Circles Around Economies
Herman E. Daly examines possible paths to less fragile global systems with Kate Raworth, whose “doughnut economics” model aims to build economic policies and metrics that put thriving ahead of growing.
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In Ancient Scottish Tree Rings, a Cautionary Tale on Climate, Politics and Survival
Using old tree rings and archival documents, historians and climate scientists have detailed an extreme cold period in Scotland in the 1690s that caused immense suffering. It may have lessons for Brexit-era politics.
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Bright Lights, Big Cities: An Intern Takes on the World of Remote Sensing
Intern Dorothee Grant is using daytime and nighttime lights satellite data to help map urban areas at large spatial scales.
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