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Improved Understanding Of Trends, Variations, And Causes Of Atmospheric Aerosols Using Ground Measurements, Satellite Observations, And Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling, Xueke Li
Doctoral Dissertations
A good understanding of trends, variations, and causes of atmospheric aerosols is vital to quantifying the role of air quality in climate change and health concerns and for informing relevant regulatory policies. This thesis presents four projects that exploit a range of observational data and modeling tools to characterize and interpret aerosol dynamics and its potential determinates.
An econometric model is implemented to identify aerosol variations, predictions, and the driving forces using six sites spreading across North America and East Asia during 2003–2015. Regional differences caused by impacts of climatology and land cover types are observed. Statistical validation of time …
The Economics Of Climate Change Adaptation And Water Resources: An Application To Dams, Yuan Niu
The Economics Of Climate Change Adaptation And Water Resources: An Application To Dams, Yuan Niu
Doctoral Dissertations
Dam construction has increased rapidly since the 1950’s, especially in developing countries. Climate change is likely to impact the demand for new dams as well as future water and sediment inflow in rivers, thereby influencing the utility, management, and lifetime of dams. Proper construction of dams and sediment management can also help reduce the cost and mitigate the risks dams might be facing as a result of changing climate patterns, which will allow communities to utilize water resources more efficiently and sustainably.
This dissertation develops a series of dynamic optimization models to determine how the size of different type of …
The Grapes Of Development’S Aftermath: Climate Change, Internally Displaced Persons, And Conflict, Frank Griggs
The Grapes Of Development’S Aftermath: Climate Change, Internally Displaced Persons, And Conflict, Frank Griggs
Doctoral Dissertations
I engage environmental scholarship by focusing on internal human displacement – people whose lives are adversely affected by natural disasters associated with climate change, and, do not cross an international border. Human displacement is increasing as rising global temperatures worsen natural disasters. Human displacement is an understudied intervening condition that I show links climate change to conflict.
I follow the trend of disaggregating conflict by taking advantage of new event-based datasets to explore multiple conflict types. Statistical analyses found anti-government conflict and protest are the two conflict types that significantly increase following disaster-induced displacement. The relationship between disaster-induced displacement and …