Edward Byers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3962589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Byers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Byers |
| SIGNATURE | BYERS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0349-5742 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A more complete Image: Enhancing the climate change impact representation in integrated assessment models
Currently, climate impacts are mostly absent in the analysis of process-based integrated assessment models (IAMs). This is becoming increasingly problematic given the fact that climate impacts are expected to influence both baseline developments as well as the capacity to mitigate and adapt in the future. This paper presents a set of scenarios made using the IAM IMAGE with climate change impacts on labor productivity and GDP, renewable energy sup…
The hours matter: Comparing indicators of US residential cooling from hourly versus daily climate variables
Cooling energy demand in buildings is rapidly increasing as climate warms. Current methods of estimating and predicting residential cooling demand are primarily based on daily temperature, which neglects intraday temperature variations. To determine whether large-scale cooling demand is substantially affected by intraday temperature variations, we conduct a thorough comparison between variable degree days (VDDs) derived from daily temperature dat…
Science-based principles for corporate climate transition risk quantification
Climate policy and the SDGs agenda: How does near-term action on nexus SDGs influence the achievement of long-term climate goals
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) represent the global ambition to accelerate sustainable development. Several SDGs are directly related to climate change and policies aiming to mitigate it. This includes, among others, the set of SDGs that directly influence the climate, land, energy, and water (CLEW) nexus (SDGs 2, 6, 7, 13, 15). This study aims at understanding the synergies and trade-offs between climate policy and the SDGs agenda: how…
Targeting net-zero emissions while advancing other sustainable development goals in China
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets
The remaining carbon budget (RCB), the net amount of CO 2 humans can still emit without exceeding a chosen global warming limit, is often used to evaluate political action against the goals of the Paris Agreement. RCB estimates for 1.5 °C are small, and minor changes in their calculation can therefore result in large relative adjustments. Here we evaluate recent RCB assessments by the IPCC and present more recent data, calculation refinements and…
Towards scenario representation of adaptive capacity for global climate change assessments
Solar irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic feasibility and development potential
Irrespective of water resource abundance, agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is predominantly rainfed. Along with fertilization, irrigation could support smallholder farmers with stabilizing crop yields, increasing incomes, and achieving food security. A key barrier to irrigation uptake is inadequate rural electricity supply for pumping and distributing water, besides other infrastructure deficits. Here we devise a spatially explicit integra…
Balancing smart irrigation and hydropower investments for sustainable water conservation in the Indus basin
Future cooling gap in shared socioeconomic pathways
The extent to which societies will globally be able to adapt to climate change is not well understood. Here we analyze socioeconomic dimensions of adaptive capacity of populations to deal with heat stress and find income, urbanization and income inequality to be important factors in explaining adaptation to heat stress with air conditioning (AC). Using the scenario framework of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), we estimate the future cool…
Satellite Observations Reveal Inequalities in the Progress and Effectiveness of Recent Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ending energy poverty is a necessary condition for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Boosting electricity access levels is, how- ever, insufficient if consumption and reliability in- dicators stagnate. Previous research has shown that satellite-derived data can complement field surveys in tracking energy poverty but with little consideration for the multi-dimensionality of en- ergy access and the role of demographic dy- namics. …
Transboundary cooperation a potential route to sustainable development in the Indus basin
Co-designing Indus Water-Energy-Land Futures
The Indus River Basin covers an area of around 1 million square kilometers and connects four countries: Afghanistan, China, India, and Pakistan. More than 300 million people depend to some extent on the basin’s water, yet a growing population, increasing food and energy demands, climate change, and shifting monsoon patterns are exerting increasing pressure. Under these pressures, a “business as usual” (BAU) approach is no longer sustainable, and …
Global exposure and vulnerability to multi-sector development and climate change hotspots
Understanding the interplay between multiple climate change risks and socioeconomic development is increasingly required to inform effective actions to manage these risks and pursue sustainable development. We calculate a set of 14 impact indicators at different levels of global mean temperature (GMT) change and socioeconomic development covering water, energy and land sectors from an ensemble of global climate, integrated assessment and impact m…
Balancing clean water-climate change mitigation trade-offs
Energy systems support technical solutions fulfilling the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal for clean water and sanitation (SDG6), with implications for future energy demands and greenhouse gas emissions. The energy sector is also a large consumer of water, making water efficiency targets ingrained in SDG6 important constraints for long-term energy planning. Here, we apply a global integrated assessment model to quantify the cost and c…
Quantifying the potential for reservoirs to secure future surface water yields in the world’s largest river basins
Surface water reservoirs provide us with reliable water supply, hydropower generation, flood control and recreation services. Yet, reservoirs also cause flow fragmentation in rivers and lead to flooding of upstream areas, thereby displacing existing land-use activities and ecosystems. Anticipated population growth and development coupled with climate change in many regions of the globe suggests a critical need to assess the potential for future r…
Air quality–carbon–water synergies and trade-offs in China’s natural gas industry
Water and climate risks to power generation with carbon capture and storage
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) provides the opportunity to minimize atmospheric carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants. However, CCS increases cooling water use and few studies have simulated the potential impacts of low flows on CCS power plant reliability. We present a framework to simulate the impacts of natural hydrological variability and climatic changes on water availability for portfolios of CCS capacity and cooling technologies…
Electricity generation and cooling water use: UK pathways to 2050
Thermoelectric generation contributes to 80% of global electricity production. Cooling of thermoelectric plants is often achieved by water abstractions from the natural environment. In England and Wales, the electricity sector is responsible for approximately half of all water abstractions and 40% of non-tidal surface water abstractions. We present a model that quantifies current water use of the UK electricity sector and use it to test six decar…
The Nation of Nantucket: Society and Politics in an Early American Commercial Center, 1660-1820
The Nation of Nantucket: Society and Politics in an Early American Commercial Center, 1660-1820
The Nation of Nantucket: Society and Politics in an Early American Commercial Center, 1660-1820
The Nation of Nantucket: Society and Politics in an Early American Commercial Center, 1660-1820
Journal Article The Nation of Nantucket: Society and Politics in an Early American Commercial Center, 1660–1820. By Edward Byers. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987. xvi + 367 pp. $35.00.) Get access Jessica Kross Jessica Kross University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 4, March 1988, Pages 1321–1322, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894425 …
The Nation of Nantucket: Society and Politics in an Early American Commercial Center, 1660-1820
Putting History Back in Historical Demography: Nantucket Re-Reexamined
This article is part of a continuing controversy concerning the extent of family limitation practices in the whaling community of Nantucket Massachusetts prior to 1850. A response by Barbara J. Logue is also included (pp. 691-9). (ANNOTATION)
Electricity generation and cooling water use: UK pathways to 2050
Thermoelectric generation contributes to 80% of global electricity production. Cooling of thermoelectric plants is often achieved by water abstractions from the natural environment. In England and Wales, the electricity sector is responsible for approximately half of all water abstractions and 40% of non-tidal surface water abstractions. We present a model that quantifies current water use of the UK electricity sector and use it to test six decar…
Fertility Transition in a New England Commercial Center: Nantucket, Massachusetts, 1680-1840
This study examines the marriage and fertility behavior of the white population of nantucket from the beginning of white settlement in the late 17th century. Data are drawn from Nantucket's vital records: about 6000 marriages were recorded between 1680-1840 and mean number of children ever born was between, 8(1720-29) to 3.45(1830-39). The latter fluctuated prior to 1740, dropped during the 1740s and declined again in the 1780s. Age at marriage f…
Targeting net-zero emissions while advancing other sustainable development goals in China
Air quality–carbon–water synergies and trade-offs in China’s natural gas industry
Transboundary cooperation a potential route to sustainable development in the Indus basin
Putting History Back in Historical Demography: Nantucket Re-Reexamined
This article is part of a continuing controversy concerning the extent of family limitation practices in the whaling community of Nantucket Massachusetts prior to 1850. A response by Barbara J. Logue is also included (pp. 691-9). (ANNOTATION)
Fertility Transition in a New England Commercial Center: Nantucket, Massachusetts, 1680-1840
This study examines the marriage and fertility behavior of the white population of nantucket from the beginning of white settlement in the late 17th century. Data are drawn from Nantucket's vital records: about 6000 marriages were recorded between 1680-1840 and mean number of children ever born was between, 8(1720-29) to 3.45(1830-39). The latter fluctuated prior to 1740, dropped during the 1740s and declined again in the 1780s. Age at marriage f…
An Independent People: The Way We Lived in North Carolina, 1770-1820
Putting History Back in Historical Demography: Nantucket Re-Reexamined
This article is part of a continuing controversy concerning the extent of family limitation practices in the whaling community of Nantucket Massachusetts prior to 1850. A response by Barbara J. Logue is also included (pp. 691-9). (ANNOTATION)
The Nation of Nantucket: Society and Politics in an Early American Commercial Center, 1660-1820
The Nation of Nantucket: Society and Politics in an Early American Commercial Center, 1660-1820
The Nation of Nantucket: Society and Politics in an Early American Commercial Center, 1660-1820
The Nation of Nantucket: Society and Politics in an Early American Commercial Center, 1660-1820
Journal Article The Nation of Nantucket: Society and Politics in an Early American Commercial Center, 1660–1820. By Edward Byers. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987. xvi + 367 pp. $35.00.) Get access Jessica Kross Jessica Kross University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 4, March 1988, Pages 1321–1322, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894425 …
The Nation of Nantucket: Society and Politics in an Early American Commercial Center, 1660-1820
Electricity generation and cooling water use: UK pathways to 2050
Thermoelectric generation contributes to 80% of global electricity production. Cooling of thermoelectric plants is often achieved by water abstractions from the natural environment. In England and Wales, the electricity sector is responsible for approximately half of all water abstractions and 40% of non-tidal surface water abstractions. We present a model that quantifies current water use of the UK electricity sector and use it to test six decar…
Water and climate risks to power generation with carbon capture and storage
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) provides the opportunity to minimize atmospheric carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants. However, CCS increases cooling water use and few studies have simulated the potential impacts of low flows on CCS power plant reliability. We present a framework to simulate the impacts of natural hydrological variability and climatic changes on water availability for portfolios of CCS capacity and cooling technologies…
Global exposure and vulnerability to multi-sector development and climate change hotspots
Understanding the interplay between multiple climate change risks and socioeconomic development is increasingly required to inform effective actions to manage these risks and pursue sustainable development. We calculate a set of 14 impact indicators at different levels of global mean temperature (GMT) change and socioeconomic development covering water, energy and land sectors from an ensemble of global climate, integrated assessment and impact m…
Balancing clean water-climate change mitigation trade-offs
Energy systems support technical solutions fulfilling the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal for clean water and sanitation (SDG6), with implications for future energy demands and greenhouse gas emissions. The energy sector is also a large consumer of water, making water efficiency targets ingrained in SDG6 important constraints for long-term energy planning. Here, we apply a global integrated assessment model to quantify the cost and c…
Quantifying the potential for reservoirs to secure future surface water yields in the world’s largest river basins
Surface water reservoirs provide us with reliable water supply, hydropower generation, flood control and recreation services. Yet, reservoirs also cause flow fragmentation in rivers and lead to flooding of upstream areas, thereby displacing existing land-use activities and ecosystems. Anticipated population growth and development coupled with climate change in many regions of the globe suggests a critical need to assess the potential for future r…
Air quality–carbon–water synergies and trade-offs in China’s natural gas industry
Co-designing Indus Water-Energy-Land Futures
The Indus River Basin covers an area of around 1 million square kilometers and connects four countries: Afghanistan, China, India, and Pakistan. More than 300 million people depend to some extent on the basin’s water, yet a growing population, increasing food and energy demands, climate change, and shifting monsoon patterns are exerting increasing pressure. Under these pressures, a “business as usual” (BAU) approach is no longer sustainable, and …
Satellite Observations Reveal Inequalities in the Progress and Effectiveness of Recent Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ending energy poverty is a necessary condition for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Boosting electricity access levels is, how- ever, insufficient if consumption and reliability in- dicators stagnate. Previous research has shown that satellite-derived data can complement field surveys in tracking energy poverty but with little consideration for the multi-dimensionality of en- ergy access and the role of demographic dy- namics. …
Transboundary cooperation a potential route to sustainable development in the Indus basin
Future cooling gap in shared socioeconomic pathways
The extent to which societies will globally be able to adapt to climate change is not well understood. Here we analyze socioeconomic dimensions of adaptive capacity of populations to deal with heat stress and find income, urbanization and income inequality to be important factors in explaining adaptation to heat stress with air conditioning (AC). Using the scenario framework of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), we estimate the future cool…
Balancing smart irrigation and hydropower investments for sustainable water conservation in the Indus basin
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets
The remaining carbon budget (RCB), the net amount of CO 2 humans can still emit without exceeding a chosen global warming limit, is often used to evaluate political action against the goals of the Paris Agreement. RCB estimates for 1.5 °C are small, and minor changes in their calculation can therefore result in large relative adjustments. Here we evaluate recent RCB assessments by the IPCC and present more recent data, calculation refinements and…
Towards scenario representation of adaptive capacity for global climate change assessments
Solar irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic feasibility and development potential
Irrespective of water resource abundance, agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is predominantly rainfed. Along with fertilization, irrigation could support smallholder farmers with stabilizing crop yields, increasing incomes, and achieving food security. A key barrier to irrigation uptake is inadequate rural electricity supply for pumping and distributing water, besides other infrastructure deficits. Here we devise a spatially explicit integra…
Science-based principles for corporate climate transition risk quantification
Climate policy and the SDGs agenda: How does near-term action on nexus SDGs influence the achievement of long-term climate goals
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) represent the global ambition to accelerate sustainable development. Several SDGs are directly related to climate change and policies aiming to mitigate it. This includes, among others, the set of SDGs that directly influence the climate, land, energy, and water (CLEW) nexus (SDGs 2, 6, 7, 13, 15). This study aims at understanding the synergies and trade-offs between climate policy and the SDGs agenda: how…
Targeting net-zero emissions while advancing other sustainable development goals in China
Environmental Science (16 works) · Geography (12 works) · Climate change (11 works) · Economics (11 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Natural resource economics (10 works) · Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Engineering (7 works)