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Ferguson, Sean Michael. "Plastics Without Petroleum History and Politics of 'Green' Plastics in the United States". Thesis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3557924.
Testo completoAmong the new technologies heralded as part of the emerging bioeconomy are plastics made from plant material, known as bioplastics. This dissertation examines the political and historical underpinnings of the bioplastics that are now being offered as an alternative to petrochemicals in the United States. As a case study of "green" technological development, bioplastics challenge dominant conceptions of innovation for sustainability. The bioplastics being developed and marketed today are the outcome of interventions in commodity crop prices, incubation of research on biomass during periods of fossil fuel dominance, and the commercialization of publicly funded research. Their origins can be traced at least as far back as the 1920s, when advocates of "chemurgy" encouraged the federal government to create research centers to discover new industrial uses of agricultural crops.
Research in science and technology studies (STS) indicates that social structures shape perceptions of problems, condition viable solutions, and limit the diversity of stakeholders and ideas present in the social construction of technology. This study examines these processes in the history and current debates about bioplastics. The dissertation asks who has influenced the social construction of bioplastics and why bioplastics have become part of a larger bioeconomic vision now. Theoretical insights are drawn from the sociological theory of the treadmill of production, which argues that environmental problems cannot be solved in a capitalist system in which the federal government, private industries, and organized labor continuously seek the expansion of production and consumption at the expense of environmental sustainability. Major players in the chemical and biotechnology industries have pursued bioplastics as a means of continuing economic growth and consumption of goods, even as petroleum becomes costly and environmentalists voice objections to petrochemicals. There are many critiques of bioplastics and their impacts at every stage of bioplastics, from sourcing feedstocks from food crops to disrupting existing recycling and composting systems. Nevertheless, the bioplastics currently on the market were not designed to resolve these environmental concerns. Increasingly, however, activists are using non-governmental institutions, particularly the development of voluntary standards, to shape the industry and technology. The study examines the extent to which such reforms might lead to the production of more sustainable alternatives to petrochemicals.
Ultimately, this dissertation presents the history and politics surrounding the field of bioplastics in order to highlight how things "might have been otherwise" and what changes in society could be useful for producing more sustainable technologies.
Harmsworth, Thomas. "Gary Snyder's green Dharma". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e4c2e123-0b71-45c9-8535-eb09ac8cfa15.
Testo completoPicard, Stephan. "Leveraging the National Guard's existing Information Technology infrastructure to bridge the incident response digital divide". Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Sep%5FPicard.pdf.
Testo completoSouth, Matthew T. "Transitioning Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations to acquisition programs". Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Dec%5FSouth.pdf.
Testo completoThesis advisor(s): Keith Snider, Wally Owen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-126). Also available online.
Youngquist, Timothy Dennis. "What is green infrastructure? an evaluation of green infrastructure plans from across the United States /". [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1464412.
Testo completoArrisueno, Alfredo, e Ramon Peraza. "United States technology transfer to Peru and Venezuela". Thesis, New York, N.Y. (42 W. 44th St., New York 10036) : The Committee, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/21599.
Testo completoWallace, Thomas Henry. "Capital constraints to the acquisition of new technology by small business in high technology industries". Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/30347.
Testo completoShahrokhi, Manuchehr. "Reverse licensing : international technology transfer to the United States /". The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1258657986.
Testo completoAnsolabehere, Stephen, e Charles Stewart. ""Voting Technology and Uncounted Votes in the United States"". Journal of Politics, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5455.
Testo completoKlein, Alexander Mugar. "The rise of empiricism William James, Thomas Hill Green, and the struggle over psychology /". [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3274251.
Testo completoSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: A, page: 2976. Adviser: Elisabeth A. Lloyd. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Mar. 28, 2008).
DeLancey, Amanda L., Andrew J. Ramsey e Caitlin E. Harris. "Green acquisition gap analysis of the United States Air Force Operational Contracting Organizations". Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/10591.
Testo completoIn this thesis, we explore the goals and requirements of green procurement in order to assess the Air Force's degree of success with incorporating the Defenses (DoD's) Green Procurement Program (GPP) into its procurement process. This thesis provides an outline of the federal policies and guidance regarding green procurement, including Executive Order 13514 (2009) and relevant parts of the Federal Acquisition Regulations. We examine the Air Force's progress towards a more environmentally friendly process, measured by the metrics set forth in the DoD GPP. To evaluate these metrics, we conducted an analysis to determine if the Air Force is implementing environmental considerations to the maximum extent practical. This analysis relied on the use of the Green Acquisition Gap Analysis (GAGA) model, which is a unique framework that we developed. The GAGA model fuses the personnel, platform, and protocol pillars of the Mandatory Pillars for Integrative Success (Yoder, 2010) framework with the Contract Management Process framework, which dissects the six segments of the contracting process: procurement planning, solicitation planning, the solicitation, source selection, contract administration, and contract closeout or termination (Rendon, 2007). Further, in order to document best practices for Air Force-wide dissemination, we identified the leading Air Force installations through our extensive research and collaboration with key leadership.
Hancock, Rosemary Joy. "Muslims Going Green: Islamic Environmental Activism in the United States and Great Britain". Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14655.
Testo completoOsborne, John Kimball. "The costs of not using green design in the USAF would using green building design have resulted in life cycle cost savings? /". Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Air Force Institute of Technology, 2007. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA469170.
Testo completoAFIT/GCS/ENV/07-M8. "March 2007." Title from title page of PDF file ; viewed: Nov. 28, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-50).
Whiteker, James S., Steven A. Sablan, Jason A. Hamilton, James S. Whiteker, Steven A. Sablan e Jason A. Hamilton. "Logistical impact study of photovoltaic power converter technology to the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps". Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/9917.
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The purpose of this MBA Project was to analyze the logistical and fiscal impact of replacing selected disposable batteries with rechargeable batteries and photovoltaic power converter chargers within Army and Marine Corps infantry battalions. This project was conducted with the sponsorship and assistance XVIII Airborne Corps, Marine Corps Systems Command, Fleet Numerical, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The goal of this project was to identify how this new technology could be incorporated into current combat gear and what impact such an incorporation of the technology would have in decreasing the infantryman's combat load, reducing expenditures on batteries, and relieving the overall logistical burden for the subject services.
The purpose of this MBA Project was to analyze the logistical and fiscal impact of replacing selected disposable batteries with rechargeable batteries and photovoltaic power converter chargers within Army and Marine Corps infantry battalions. This project was conducted with the sponsorship and assistance XVIII Airborne Corps, Marine Corps Systems Command, Fleet Numerical, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The goal of this project was to identify how this new technology could be incorporated into current combat gear and what impact such an incorporation of the technology would have in decreasing the infantryman's combat load, reducing expenditures on batteries, and relieving the overall logistical burden for the subject services.
Edwards, Laura. "E-Waste Recycling: The Dirty Trade Between the United States and China". Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/153.
Testo completoDetwiler, Dominic. "Bridging The Queer-Green Gap: LGBTQ & Environmental Movements inCanada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States". Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1587131806748671.
Testo completoHightower, Gerald R. "Aviation proof of concept the transition of Marine Corps aviation maintenance computer assets and systems into the Navy Marine Corps Intranet /". Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2010. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2010/Mar/10Mar%5FHightower.pdf.
Testo completoThesis Advisor(s): Cook, Glenn. Second Reader: Oros, Carl. "March 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 28, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: DT, OT, APOC, NTCSS, NMCI. Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-70). Also available in print.
Taggart, Paul A. "Green giants and sleeping giants: environmental interest group politics and the nature of the state". Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44692.
Testo completoThe neglect that recent political science has shown toward the concept of the State has drastically reduced the efiicacy of analyses of environmental interest group politics. This thesis is an attempt to introduce a revamped concept of the State into such an analysis. The State is defined as both administrative and ideological. Through drawing out the logic of the environmentalist position, it can be shown how environmentalism challenges both these aspects of the modem State. It will then be shown how the State plays a decisive role in setting the parameters in which interest group activity operates, and how those parameters dictate that only groups which deny the logic of their own environmental ideological position gain access to existing power structures. The State, through the marketization, scientization, and technologization of the issues, has effectively defined the language of debate. This language is not the natural language of environmentalism, just as the definitions of the arena, and the norms of legitimacy and behavior sanctioned by the State are unsuited to the claims of environmentalism. By showing that the State has both the capacity and the incentive to intervene, the original premise of bringing the State back in to this analysis of environmental interest group politics in the United States is justified.
Master of Arts
Yager, Loren. "The effect of defense spending on the trade performance of high-technology industries". Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 1992. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/25641963.html.
Testo completoSchocket, andrew M. "Consolidating power: Technology, ideology, and Philadelphia's growth in the early republic". W&M ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623378.
Testo completoHolden, Stephen H. "Managing information technology in the federal government new policies for an information age /". Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/33134804.html.
Testo completoSchum, Joshua F. "The influence of digital technology on the narrative of American art museums". Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1397650.
Testo completoDepartment of Telecommunications
Knauer, Larry D. (Larry Douglas). "Taking advantage of technology transfer from the United States national laboratories". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45689.
Testo completoGustin, Mary Elizabeth. "The intention to purchase a night's stay in a hotel: an empirical test of the Hines' model of responsible environmental behavior". Diss., Virginia Tech, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40042.
Testo completoPh. D.
Cook, Glenn R. Dyer Jefferson D. "Business process reengineering using knowledge value added in support of the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer /". Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03sep%5FCook.pdf.
Testo completoThesis advisor(s): Thomas J. Housel, Brian Steckler. Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-88). Also available online.
Vogelsang, Andrew John. "The Department of Defense and high technology export controls : policies and processes". Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/30908.
Testo completoHaddock-Millar, Julie, Chandana Sanyal e Michael Müller-Camen. "Green human resource management: a comparative qualitative case study of a United States multinational corporation". Taylor & Francis, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2015.1052087.
Testo completoKaymaz, Sidar Diri Alaattin. "Use of information technology tools in source selection decision making a study on USAF's KC-X Tanker Replacement Program /". Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA483510.
Testo completoAdvisor(s): Heath, Susan K. ; Petross, Diana F. "June 2008." "MBA professional report"--Cover. Description based on title screen as viewed on August 8, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-152). Also available in print.
Chambliss, Virginia Ricci. "Curricula Responses to the Demands of Industrialization and High Technology in the Marketplace". Thesis, North Texas State University, 1985. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500717/.
Testo completoMennie, James J. "A Culture/Climate Examination of Autonomous Vehicle Technology in the United States". Thesis, University of South Florida, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13423130.
Testo completoAutonomous Vehicle are coming. But mass adoption is at least ten years away according to consensus compiled from interviews conducted with industry thought lenders. Questions remain as to what technology those vehicles will contain as there is no universal platform for autonomous vehicle technology, since manufacturers, hardware and software companies are developing their own proprietary products. A/V technology is expected to improve productivity, and provide a plethora of societal benefits, but while we await the closure of the time gap the US will lose almost 40,000 citizens each year with traffic fatalities.
Connected vehicle technology, which is currently completing pilot studies, has been shown to reduce automobile accidents. This technology is not as complex as autonomous vehicle technology and is available now. Semi-autonomous vehicles which is Level 1 through Level 3 on the Society of Automobile Executives (SAE) scale is available on American automobiles today and has proven to be very popular amongst consumers. Technology convergence of semi-autonomous vehicle and connected vehicles can bridge the time gap until mass adoption of autonomous vehicle and contribute to reducing annual traffic fatalities. Combining these technologies will give drivers additional safety features thus providing them with the opportunity of making better decisions.
Sethi, Rosh Kumar Viasha. "Technology Adoption in the United States: The Impact of Hospital Market Competition". Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://etds.lib.harvard.edu/hms/admin/view/57.
Testo completoMennie, James J. "A Culture/Climate Examination of Autonomous Vehicle Technology In The United States". Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7546.
Testo completoTousignant, Noémi R. "Pain and the pursuit of objectivity : pain-measuring technologies in the United States, c1890-1975". Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102739.
Testo completoSurprisingly, as efforts to objectify pain were intensified, pain was increasingly conceptualised as a subjective experience, that is, as a phenomenon inextricably tied to the unique emotional, psychological, and social condition of the experiencing self. I argue that this transformation was not solely due to the development of new theoretical models of pain, but also, importantly, enabled by the implementation of new technologies that could measure pain as an individual and psychological phenomenon. I also argue that the successful implementation of these technologies depended on the availability of specific social, material, and technical resources, and examine the social settings in which these resources were made available.
The main motivation for the direct investment of new resources towards pain-measuring technologies was a desire to make analgesic drug testing more objective. Beginning in the late 1930s, professional, industrial and public health interests in drug addiction, opiate pharmacology, new drug development and therapeutic testing converged on the goal of better pain-measurement. By the 1950s, the organisation and funding of analgesic testing made it possible to implement and validate the analgesic clinical trial, a technology that determined analgesic efficacy by measuring collective pain and its relief. The validity of the clinical was based on procedural and statistical control of data collection and analysis, rather than on the standardisation of individual experiences and evaluations of pain. It became possible to think of pain relief as an inevitably idiosyncratic experience, open to multiple sources of psychological variation, and yet still measure it consistently and objectively on a collective level.
Keywords. pain; measurement; objectivity; subjectivity, clinical trials; analgesics: psychophysics; psychosomatics; history of medicine; history of science.
Özden-Schilling, Canay. "Economy electric : techno-economics, neoliberalism, and electricity in the United States". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104559.
Testo completoCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-285).
This dissertation is a study of emergent economic forms of life. It investigates recent remakings of economic existence and modes of disseminating these forms of life, and does so with particular reference to the crafting of electricity markets in the United States. It draws on more than a year of fieldwork among experts and users involved in electricity exchange. The experts and users among whom I conducted participant observation include computer programmers who assist companies that trade in electricity markets by collecting information and making trading suggestions, electrical engineers who design new infrastructures such as electricity markets for buying and selling electricity in bulk, psychologists and social scientists who study people's electricity consumption behavior to generate economic technologies to save money to users and providers of electricity, and citizen groups based in West Virginia and rural Illinois that organize against electricity markets' exclusion of consumers from decision-making mechanisms. Bringing questions of economic anthropology to bear upon the emergent literature of the anthropology of infrastructures, I propose that new economic forms of existence often come to being though infrastructure building and maintenance. For the last 20 years, experts of diverse technical backgrounds have been reprogramming the electric grid to allow for enhanced calculative choice and competition - principles at the core of the neoliberal agenda. I demonstrate that people who do not necessarily concern themselves with the formal study of economics often take the lead in creating and propagating wide-ranging economic emergent forms of life, such as neoliberalism, across the social field. To zero in on their work, I develop the concept of "techno-economics": an approach that understands commodities, whether they are living nonhumans such as livestock or inorganic processes like electricity, as more than passive receptacles of human design, and locates humans within their efforts to commoditize and marketize unruly objects, like electricity - a commodity that cannot be stored in warehouses or shipped on highways. Anthropological studies of the techno-economic, I suggest, are best equipped to make connections in ethnographic representation between otherwise disparate nodes of social life, like expertise and wires, law and steel, and finally, economics and electricity.
by Canay Özden-Schilling.
Ph. D. in History and Social Study of Science and Technology (HASTS)
Hoak, Michael Shane. "The Men in Green: African Americans and the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942". W&M ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626375.
Testo completoHarris, Jeffrey S. Worrell Jeffrey S. "Pallet management system a study of the implementation of UID/RFID technology for tracking shipping materials within the Department of Defense Distribution network /". Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA483484.
Testo completoAdvisor(s): Ferrer, Geraldo ; Petross, Diana. "June 2008." "MBA professional report"--Cover. Description based on title screen as viewed on August 8, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-82). Also available in print.
Collins, Gerald C. "Transition of Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations (ACTD) initiatives from research to operational functional programs : a case study of the Joint Theater Logistics ACTD /". Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02Jun%5FCollinsG.pdf.
Testo completoPhillips, Eric L. "The development and initial evaluation of the human readiness level framework". Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2010. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2010/Jun/10Jun%5FPhillips.pdf.
Testo completoThesis Advisor(s): O'Connor, Paul E. ; Acosta, Hector M. ; Second Reader: McCauley, Michael E. "June 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on July 16, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Human systems Iitegration, human readiness level, technology readiness level, human view, Defense Acquisition. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-62). Also available in print.
Urian, Alyson Goodwin. "Potential for Range Expansion of the Invasive Green Mussel, Perna Viridis, in the Southeastern United States". UNF Digital Commons, 2009. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/210.
Testo completoYi, Sangbong. "Problem-solving in technology education at the secondary level as perceived by technology educators in the United Kingdom and the United States /". The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487942739805347.
Testo completoKwok, Peter Jordan. "Electricity transmission investment in the United States : an investigation of adequacy". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62058.
Testo completoCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-91).
There is a prevailing sentiment that the United States is underinvested in its electric transmission infrastructure. The standard claim is that poor regulation has caused insufficient levels of capital to be devoted to the transmission system and resulted in a network that is economically inefficient and potentially unreliable. Furthermore, it has been postulated that if policy changes are not made to increase investment in the near future, the US will face a crisis within its electricity grid. This investigation assesses these claims and, where regulation or investment is found to be wanting, policy recommendations to remedy the situation are made. Adequacy is defined here in the context of the major goals for transmission in the United States - generator interconnection, economics, reliability, and policy support - and whether the current system is achieving these goals. Adequacy is neither static nor a binary outcome, and at any point in time the system exists along some continuum between perfectly adequate and completely inadequate. This state may be affected by policies in place, the economy, the fuel prices that underlie the economics of the power system, or by other factors, and thus adequacy must be regularly revisited, as is done here. This study begins by finding that many of the indicators traditionally used to assess adequacy of transmission investment do not actually have much utility when it comes to drawing a definitive conclusion. Additionally, data that could potentially indicate adequacy are either insufficient to support any findings on the matter or are inconclusive. As such, other avenues of research are required. Two approaches are settled on as possible ways of addressing adequacy. The first, a "regulatory rationale" approach, seeks to apply logic and experience to deduce what outcomes might result from current regulatory structures. The second, a set of interviews with professional transmission planners, serves to validate the theoretical findings of the regulatory rationale and gain insight into the actual state of the system. The interview responses are analyzed using grounded theory, a structured method for interpreting qualitative data. Based on the two pronged qualitative assessment of system adequacy, the transmission network is found to be more adequate than is commonly claimed. Specifically, the system is quite adequate to serve the goals of generator interconnection and reliability. The conclusions for whether the system is economically efficient are the least clear, but to the extent that is possible within the current planning process, it appears that there is not cause to be concerned about underinvestment. Any major economic opportunities that are being missed are likely a result of the lack of an inter-regional planning process, which in turn means that opportunities for strengthening of economic linkages between regional jurisdictions are probably overlooked. The most concerning category where adequacy may become an issue is policy lines. While a motivating national policy is not yet in place, the type of transmission regulation that would result in transmission expansion to serve policy needs is not in place. Regulatory change is required to ensure that the system does not end up with a regulatory framework that cannot support legislative goals. Based on these findings, a limited number of policy recommendations are forwarded. First, it is suggested that any decisions based on the conventional wisdom be reexamined based on a more rigorous assessment of more complete data on the current state of the system. Next, it is recommended that the economic criteria and planning process be revisited with a focus on ensuring that inter-regional opportunities are not overlooked. Finally, there is a need to create policy certainty about what the future goals are for the power system, which should be supported by improved regulation that will allow for the incorporation of large quantities of renewable power sources.
by Peter Jordan Kwok.
S.M.in Technology and Policy
Green, Tomas W. (Tomas Wesley). "Distributed household effects of climate policy in the United States". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127170.
Testo completoCataloged from the official PDF of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-83).
The net effects of various climate policies on households in the United States are assessed, with particular attention to the distribution of economic outcomes across geography, urbanity, and income groups. Climate policy has the potential to assess more costs to low-income households than high-income households (regressive) as well as more costs to rural households than metropolitan. The objective of this study was to improve the understanding of the potential for regressivity, geographic transfers, and rural-urban transfers among climate policy options and to test for ways to mitigate regressivity and unwanted transfers. Using different machine learning algorithms, I created a statistical model of the household carbon footprint (HCF) for an average household in each US Census tract. Policy outcomes were assessed by quantifying the net increase or decrease of annual household expenses (e.g.
electricity, utilities, and gasoline consumption) under 12 different policy scenarios, which included carbon pricing schemes, regulatory standards (Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards, Clean Energy Standards, and the Clean Power Plan), and a scenario that combined carbon pricing and command-and-control regulation. I found that there is significant variation in carbon footprints with income and geography; income effects are mostly driven by higher footprints related to transportation and consumer products and services, while geographic effects are affected by the carbon intensity of the electricity grid. Carbon pricing, when accompanied with a dividend, is progressive for urban, rural, and suburban households. There are transfers from the Midwest and Plains to the Coasts when the dividend is evenly divided, but this can be mitigated though adjusting the dividend slightly (<8% increase or decrease).
Adjusting the dividend to increase the amount for low-income households and reduce the amount for high-income households benefits rural households more on average, but increases the overall heterogeneity of impacts within each income group. Adjusting the carbon dividend for both geography and urbanity increases the average benefit to low-income households and reduces the heterogeneity of impacts within income groups. The effects of the regulatory policy tends to be regressive and are, on average, a net cost to households who are low income - especially those in rural areas. Combining a carbon price and dividend with regulatory standards can remove the regressive trend of regulations, but regional and urban-rural transfers are harder to mitigate.
by Tomas W. Green.
S.M. in Technology and Policy
S.M.inTechnologyandPolicy Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Beale, William Mason. "Overt and covert organization culture : a case study of the Office of Technology Assessment /". This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09162005-115024/.
Testo completoBarton, Mica Waggoner. "A Rhetorical Analysis of Major Oil Companies' Advertisements in 1990 : A Semiotic Approach". Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279180/.
Testo completoRichards, Henry Frank. "Transparent technology in the classroom". CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2478.
Testo completoCohen, Jessica L. (Jessica Lauren). "United States Air Force Air Logistics Centers : lean enterprise transformation and associated capabilities". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40381.
Testo completoIncludes bibliographical references (p. 180-183).
Lean enterprise transformation entails a complementary set of initiatives and efforts executed over a substantial period of time, in a consistent and coordinated manner, at all levels of the enterprise. It builds upon ordinary organizational change in that a broader set of people and functions will be affected, and non-traditional approaches and mental models will continue to be exercised. I have developed and proposed a set of capabilities that must be possessed by any enterprise in order for that enterprise to successfully transform and sustain a new way of doing business. These capabilities have been drawn and compiled from a combination of organizational change literature and models, as well as personal experience and observations. Between 2003 and the present, three US Air Force Air Logistics Centers (ALCs) initiated lean enterprise transformation efforts. This notion was beyond the activities these sites pursued in the past, as the ALCs were challenged to see their enterprises as a system that needed to be optimized. I have used the capabilities developed to assess each ALC and make suggestions regarding their future needs in executing lean enterprise changes.
(cont.) In particular, I have focused on two of the twelve capabilities (a leadership team with a shared mental model and a balanced and cascading system of metrics), and compared each ALC to an ideal state and utilization of these capabilities. Further, I have examined the Warner Robins ALC with respect to all twelve capabilities, in light of past work conducted at the site. The results of this research are two-fold. First, I have learned that there are certain conditions that must be met before lean enterprise transformation can be attempted and sustained. The readiness necessary can be assessed within a combination of the qualitative results derived from a comparison with the ideal capabilities I have defined, along with the quantitative results reported with the LAI Lean Enterprise Self Assessment Tool. Second, I have determined that there are special practices and cultural aspects of government enterprises that makes lean enterprise transformation particularly difficult for them. This is the result of policies in place, and a tradition of strategic direction being handed down from above.
by Jessica Lauren Cohen.
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Sandberg, Adam. "Government Transparency in Sweden and the United States : Evading Accountability Through Modern Technology". Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-203497.
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