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Enhance Resilience to Climate Change by Integrating Ecosystems into Adaptation Planning: Policy Recommendations for the National Adaptation Plan of Madagascar
(2016-12)The purpose of this Capstone Project is to create science-based policy recommendations on integrating ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) into Madagascar’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP), which is a plan developed by the ... -
Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Power Generation: A Comparative Analysis Between the United States and the European Union and its Implication for Developing Economies Using the Example of China
(2016-12)In this study, it will be examined how these technologies, including coal, natural gas, nuclear, and renewables (wind, hydro, solar, biomass, and geothermal), are currently generating greenhouse gas emissions in the ... -
Climate Silence, Moral Disengagement, and Self-Efficacy: How Albert Bandura's Theories Inform our Climate-Change Predicament
(2017-04)Although Americans are becoming increasingly concerned about climate change, only one in five Americans hear people they know talk about the issue at least once a month. This has been described as a “spiral of silence,” ... -
Using Market-Based Tools to Achieve Meaningful Carbon Emissions Reductions in the United States
(2017-05)Carbon emissions are directly and unequivocally linked to anthropogenic climate change. Reducing carbon emissions will mitigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change, which include immediate and sustained harm to ... -
The Enhancement of Emissions Efficiency through Utilization of Vehicle to Grid Technology
(2017-05)Electric vehicles with large capacity batteries are capable of providing benefits to the electric grid itself like load shifting and even potential exporting of power. More interestingly, vehicles are parked 90% of the ... -
Electric and Fuel Cell Forklifts in Mexico: A Comparative Life-Cycle Assessment
(2017-05)A recent overhaul of Mexico’s energy sector launched by a Constitutional reform in 2013 started the decarbonization of the economy by tapping into Mexico’s vast renewable resources and through the deployment of new energy ... -
Potential Marine Renewable Energy Research and Development Opportunities at Pacific Marine Energy Center
(2017-12)This capstone project is closely aligned with the professional goals of the author as an engineer within the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Water Power Technology Office (WPTO). The WPTO has two primary branches, conventional ... -
China's Renewable and Nuclear Energy Agenda: A Geopolitical Strategy?
(2017-12)This study is a culmination of research performed during the Master of Science in Energy Policy and Climate Program at Johns Hopkins University. Through questioning, research accumulation, aggregation, analytical review, ... -
Quantifying Changes in Retail Electricity Rates Resulting from a Microgrid Deployment
(2017-12)Understanding how a proposed microgrid would affect customers is critical to deciding whether to deploy such a system and this paper seeks to assess how a microgrid deployment would affect retail electricity rates for ... -
Using 2012 State Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Annual Payroll Data to Understand United States Sector Emissions
(2017-12)The completion of this paper is an excellent summation of my time in the EPC program. I came into the program hoping to compliment my work at the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, which revolves around the implementation of a federal ... -
Developing Policy for Beneficial Use of Waste Heat Energy for Low-Carbon Impact Thermal Desalination
(2017-12)This study proposes that policy—supported by innovative technologies in desalination and cogeneration—can be used as a mechanism to facilitate thermal desalination for the relief of water stress without the burden of ... -
Characteristics of Oil and Gas Pipeline Accidents Caused by Climate Change Intensified Hurricanes
(2017-12)Scientist now believe with more confidence that human activities contribute substantially to the observed upward trend in hurricane activity. An occasional casualty of hurricanes is energy infrastructure like hazardous ... -
Retraining Programs for Coal Workers in Transition: Lessons from Appalachia
(2018-04)The use of coal for energy in the United States is being pushed to historic lows for a number of reasons, including the ascent of natural gas as the fuel of choice, technological advancements, environmental regulations, ... -
Analysis of Solar Power as Single Source of Electricity for Middle East and North Africa Countries
(2018-04)The power sector is living a revolution. The cost of clean technologies is declining faster than expected and deployment targets are being achieved with relative easiness. However, as of today, to think of an entire renewable ... -
Carbon Neutral Food Menu for Restaurants
(2018-04)An individual’s carbon footprint consists of all the greenhouse gases from the meals produced as they wind their way through the food system. Shrinking this individual carbon footprint can help improve environmental and ... -
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas: Coal Plants vs. Marked Conditions
(2018-04)Coal-fired power plant retirements are important to understand as energy systems and energy markets evolve. Three base-load coal-fired power plants that were operational within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas ... -
Can Climate Change Increase the Likelihood of State Fragility?
(2018-04)It was concluded that climate change can influence the fragility of a country. The existing academic literature has found that it can be as nuanced as the displacement of people due to drought, flooding, storms, forest ... -
Utility-Scale Fixed-Tilt PV vs. Single-Axis Tracker PV: Nems Projections to 2050
(2018-04)The main purpose of this National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) project was to investigate the cost and performance tradeoffs of utility-scale solar PV through modeling variations in fixed-tilt and single-axis tracker ... -
"What Gets Measured Gets Done": A Solar Energy Project Analysis for Reforming the Public Land Project Approval Process
(2018-04)The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) mandates federal agencies to consider any “significant” impact on the environment a major energy or infrastructure project will have on public lands before proceeding with ... -
Examining Uncertainty in Reserves Estimation for Oil and Natural Gas Wells Completed with Hydraulic Fracturing
(2018-04)The recent innovations in horizontal drilling technology, paired with hydraulic fracturing (HF), have opened up vast reserves of petroleum across the world, particularly the United States. This recent surge in oil and gas ...