Principal Investigator Noelle Selin
The Selin Group has developed new decision-relevant modeling tools based on integrated assessment approaches. We are using these tools to assess how climate policies (such as renewable fuel standards or cap-and-trade initiatives) can influence health-related economic damages from air pollution over the next several decades, and to examine how Minamata Convention provisions will affect U.S. impacts of mercury over time. We are also conducting uncertainty and sensitivity analyses using this framework, developing new approaches. In related work, we are examining how uncertainties in climate combine with uncertainties in emissions to affect U.S. ozone and particulate matter health impacts.
Funding for this work comes from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, and the U.S. National Science Foundation Coupled Natural and Human Systems Program. Group members involved in this work include Amanda Giang, Corey Tucker, and Fernando Garcia.