000000788 001__ 788 000000788 005__ 20250922142201.0 000000788 02470 $$a10.6082/M14X55W0$$2doi 000000788 037__ $$aTHESIS$$bDissertation 000000788 041__ $$aeng 000000788 245__ $$aEssays in Energy Policy: The Interplay between Risks and Incentives 000000788 260__ $$bUniversity of Chicago 000000788 269__ $$a2017 000000788 300__ $$a186 000000788 336__ $$aDissertation 000000788 502__ $$bPh.D. 000000788 540__ $$a© 2017 Rebecca Jane Bishop Lordan-Perret 000000788 542__ $$fUniversity of Chicago dissertations are covered by copyright. 000000788 590__ $$aMy dissertation considers examples of how social, economic, and political incentives associated with energy production, distribution, and consumption increase the risk of harm to society and the environment. ,In the first essay, "Why America should move toward dry cask consolidated interim storage of used nuclear fuel," my co-authors and I discuss how the confluence of the U.S. Government and electricity utilities' political and economic incentives created a gridlock preventing a long-term nuclear waste disposal solution. We find that our current policies undermine the safety and security of the nuclear waste, and so, suggest a temporary, consolidated storage solution.,In the second essay, "Import-Adjusted Fatality Rates for Individual OECD Countries Caused by Accidents in the Oil Energy Chain," my co-authors and I adopt a technique from the greenhouse gas accounting literature and assign CO2 emissions to the final consumer (rather than the producer) by allocating the risk -- measured in fatalities -- associated with oil production to the final consumer. The new assignments show that normal methods of tracking oil production impacts only capture part of the actual costs.,In the third essay, "Insurgent Attacks on Energy Infrastructure and Electoral Institutions in Colombia," my co-authors and I consider the economic and political incentives that an energy resource create in a conflict environment. Our research shows that insurgents in Colombia, Las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) and Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), strategically time attacks on critical energy infrastructure during elections. These results are the first to quantify insurgent tactics to target critical energy infrastructure, which potentially undermine state capacity and democratic processes. 000000788 653__ $$aincentives 000000788 653__ $$aenergy 000000788 653__ $$arisk assessment 000000788 690__ $$aHarris School of Public Policy Studies 000000788 7001_ $$aLordan-Perret, Rebecca Jane Bishop$$uUniversity of Chicago 000000788 72012 $$aRobert Rosner 000000788 8564_ $$99c184619-b542-48ed-9f9d-96536ebdb268$$ePublic$$s6207620$$uhttps://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/788/files/LordanPerret_uchicago_0330D_13678.pdf 000000788 902__ $$ahttp://hdl.handle.net/11417/523 000000788 903__ $$aMade available in DSpace on 2017-10-02T15:56:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LordanPerret_uchicago_0330D_13678.pdf: 6207620 bytes, checksum: 914e990011757a38404164489d68359e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1 000000788 909CO $$ooai:knowledge.uchicago.edu:788$$pDissertations$$pGLOBAL_SET$$qthesis_test 000000788 945__ $$aUChicago Dissertations 000000788 945__ $$aHarris School of Public Policy Studies - Dissertations 000000788 946__ $$aUChicago Dissertations 000000788 946__ $$aHarris School of Public Policy Studies 000000788 980__ $$aMIG 000000788 983__ $$aDissertation