Sustainability Planning, Environmental Justice and Climate Change: Applications of the Long Island MARKAL Model

Authors

David S. Friedman, City University of New York Graduate CenterFollow
Yehuda Klein, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and NOAA-CREST at CCNYFollow
Jose Pillich, City University of New York Graduate Center and NOAA-CREST at CCNYFollow
Michael T. Sullivan, City University of New York, Lehman CollegeFollow

Abstract

As pointed out by many authors, sustainability is often vague and amorphous (See, for example, Dovers, 1989; Faber, et al, 2005; Glavič, et al. 2007). There is a clear need to make analytical and data-driven analyses of established and or proposed plans. MARKAL (MARKet ALlocation model) is an analytical tool that can be used characterize the impacts of sustainability plans at multiple spatial scales: global, national, regional, and local. In this study we apply the Long Island MARKAL model to answer three interrelated issues: 1, the development and incremental improvement of local and regional sustainability plans; 2, the impact of a national carbon tax, as a response to climate change, on sustainability planning conducted at the local level; and 3, the environmental justice implications of sustainability planning when energy sources are altered.

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/2164-0866.2.2.1

Recommended Citation

Friedman, David S.; Klein, Yehuda; Pillich, Jose; and Sullivan, Michael T. (2014) "Sustainability Planning, Environmental Justice and Climate Change: Applications of the Long Island MARKAL Model," Suburban Sustainability: Vol. 2 : Iss. 2 , Article 1.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/2164-0866.2.2.1
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/subsust/vol2/iss2/1