Date
July 25, 2008
News Type
Media Highlight
Source
Associated Press
Leonard A. Shabman
Senior Fellow
Len Shabman is a Senior Fellow at RFF. His current work balances time spent in research with advisory activities in order to have a direct bearing on the design and execution of water and related resources policy.
Deep-Sea Mining? Exploring Key Trade-Offs for the Energy Transition
This paper assesses the economic, environmental, social, and governance trade-offs between deep-sea mining and terrestrial mining.
If/Then: Pending Deregulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Create Significant Negative Health Effects
If the US Environmental Protection Agency finalizes a rule on greenhouse gas emissions without quantifying related effects on human health, then Congress could respond by requiring this and future rules to account for human health effects.
Wisdom/Madness of Crowds and Perils of Point Forecasts
This paper examines the reliability of expert forecasting methods, using simulated data to show that when samples from fat-tailed distributions are averaged, the results may not converge.
Estimating the Impacts of Recurrent and Expanding Coastal Flooding on Septic Systems in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay
This article analyzes how sea-level rise and coastal flooding increase the vulnerability of septic systems and amplify environmental risk in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay region.
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