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Award/Grant Name: Investigating the pollution content of trade flows and the importance of 'environmental trade balances' in addressing the problem of climate change
Award/Grant Holder: Dr Karen Turner
Start Date: 01/10/2008 End Date: 31/12/2010
Award/Grant Description

A crucial issue in addressing the problem of climate change is the impact of trade flows on any one country's domestic emissions generation (what governments are responsible for reducing under the Kyoto Protocol). Moreover, since human consumption decisions are commonly considered to lie at the heart of climate change problems, attention is increasingly turning to accounting measures such as carbon footprints, which measure emissions produced globally to meet local consumption demand. In response to this, it has become increasingly common to use appropriately augmented input-output accounts (produced as a component of national accounts in most industrialised countries) to measure emissions under different accounting principles and to estimate 'trade balances' in emissions in a multi-sector, multi-region context.

The purpose of this Fellowship is to facilitate the application of such techniques at a sub-national regional level (with applications for the UK and US) and to develop appropriate modelling frameworks to analyse the impacts of changes in policy and other disturbances on pollution trade balances. This will involve application and development of inter-regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling techniques and collaboration with a number of data providers and other researchers in the fields of input-output analysis, economic modelling, regional and environmental science.

Keywords: Input-Output analysis, computable general equilibrium modelling, environmental trade balances
Award/Grant Amount ESRC Grant Number Institution Discipline Award/Grant Type
£249,227.50 RES-066-27-0029 University of Strathclyde Economics Programme Fellowship
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  Title Type URL Author Published
Accounting for waste and pollution generation in an input output framework with potential for links between micro and macro models Presentation / Lecture Turner, Karen 12/01/2010 9:24
ESRC climate change leadership fellowship Newsletters Turner, Karen 17/12/2009 17:19
Who creates waste? : different perspectives on waste attribution in a regional economy Discussion Papers Jensen, C.D. 17/12/2009 11:09
Responsibility for regional waste generation : a single region extended input-output analysis with uni-directional trade flows Discussion Papers Jensen, C.D. 10/12/2009 11:43
An introduction to computable general equilibrium modelling for regional and environmental analyses Presentation / Lecture Turner, Karen 10/12/2009 9:53
Estimation of regional parameters and simulation in a Chicago CGE model (CHAMOS) Presentation / Lecture Turner, Karen 10/12/2009 9:45
An introduction to computable general equilibrium modelling for regional and environmental analyses Presentation / Lecture Turner, Karen 10/12/2009 9:37
Who creates waste? : different perspectives on waste attribution in a regional economy Research papers Jensen, Christa 10/12/2009 9:27
Econometric estimation of Armington import elasticities for regional CGE models of the Chicago and Illinois economies Conference Paper Ha, Soo Jung 09/11/2009 11:47
An interregional input-output analysis of the pollution content of trade flows and environmental trade balances between five states in the US Mid-West Discussion Papers Jung Ha, Soo 27/10/2009 15:09

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