TY  - THES
U1  - Bachelor Thesis
A1  - Schneiders, Caspar
T1  - Policy assessment with integrated assessment models – evaluating the economic impact of China’s environmental policies
N2  - Due to the global increase in temperature, China has been dealing with severely increasing ecological disasters. The Chinese government has therefore increased its environmental protection measures in the past 15 years. This thesis delivers descriptive results of these measures, taken from the last three five-year plans as issued by the Chinese government. This is being done by applying the expected results of these measures into a so-called integrated assessment model. Furthermore, this thesis elaborates how integrated assessment models can be used in order to assess policies, such as these employed by the government of the PRC in order to compute their overall socio-economic impact on factors like welfare-maximization and technological advancement. This is rounded out by exploring the possibility of creating a holistic assessment model that combines the potential of backstop- and abatement technologies with a global or regionally disaggregated assessment model.
KW  - Environmental integrated assessment models
KW  - China economy
KW  - Five-year plans
KW  - AIM/SLCP
Y2  - 2019
SP  - 25
S1  - 25
ER  -