סמינר ארכימדס | מדיניות אקלים וחדשנות במשאבים
Archimedes Seminar | Climate Policy and Resource Innovation
מרכז ארכימדס מזמין את קהילת האקדמיה, המגזר הציבורי והתעשייה לסמינר חודשי בו חוקרי וחוקרות המרכז יציגו את מחקריהם במגוון רחב של נושאים.
המפגש השביעי בסדרה יתקיים באופן מקוון ביום שני, ה-1 ביוני בשעה 12:30, ויתנהל בשפה העברית.
כותרת הסמינר:
מדיניות אקלים וחדשנות במשאבים
מרצה: פרופ' רוסלנה רחל פלטניק | המכללה האקדמית עמק יזרעאל
תקציר:
This lecture will present a set of applied research projects that examine how Israel can respond to climate change through both mitigation and adaptation strategies. The lecture will begin with an evaluation of carbon tax policy in Israel, comparing economically optimal policy design with politically feasible alternatives. It will then move to scenario-based assessments of future energy development and carbon emissions, highlighting how different policy, technology, and demand pathways may shape Israel’s long-term emissions trajectory.
The second part of the lecture will focus on climate adaptation and resource resilience, especially in the water sector. It will discuss the value of alternative water sources as adaptation tools under future climate uncertainty. Finally, the lecture will explore a circular economy approach that uses brine from desalination processes to cultivate algae, creating potential environmental benefits by reducing nitrogen disposal while generating value from a waste stream.
These projects demonstrate the importance of integrated climate policy analysis: effective climate strategy requires not only emissions reduction, but also politically realistic policy design, adaptive infrastructure planning, and circular use of scarce resources.
אודות פרופ' רוסלנה רחל פלטניק:
Ruslana Rachel Palatnik is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Management at The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, a Senior Researcher at the NRERC, University of Haifa, Archimedes, Tel Aviv University and ATHENA Research Center in Greece, and a Senior Guest Research Scholar at IIASA, Austria. Her research bridges economics and sustainable development, with a focus on climate policy, energy economics, agricultural economics, water-resource adaptation, and circular bioeconomy solutions.
She specializes in quantitative policy analysis using computable general equilibrium models, integrated assessment models, mathematical programming, option-value analysis, and econometric methods. Her work has informed Israeli climate and energy policy, including carbon pricing discussions, and has been supported by national and international agencies such as the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, BARD, PRIMA, and the European Commission. She has published widely in leading journals on topics including carbon taxation, energy transitions, alternative water sources, food security, algae-based supply chains, and climate adaptation, and she is active in academic leadership, and international scientific committees.
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The fourth seminar in the series will be held online on Monday, June 1, at 12:30 PM.
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Seminar Title:
Climate Policy and Resource Innovation
Speaker:
Prof. Ruslana Rachel Palatnik | Yezreel Valley College
Abstract
This lecture will present a set of applied research projects that examine how Israel can respond to climate change through both mitigation and adaptation strategies. The lecture will begin with an evaluation of carbon tax policy in Israel, comparing economically optimal policy design with politically feasible alternatives. It will then move to scenario-based assessments of future energy development and carbon emissions, highlighting how different policy, technology, and demand pathways may shape Israel’s long-term emissions trajectory.
The second part of the lecture will focus on climate adaptation and resource resilience, especially in the water sector. It will discuss the value of alternative water sources as adaptation tools under future climate uncertainty. Finally, the lecture will explore a circular economy approach that uses brine from desalination processes to cultivate algae, creating potential environmental benefits by reducing nitrogen disposal while generating value from a waste stream.
These projects demonstrate the importance of integrated climate policy analysis: effective climate strategy requires not only emissions reduction, but also politically realistic policy design, adaptive infrastructure planning, and circular use of scarce resources.
About Prof. Ruslana Rachel Palatnik:
Ruslana Rachel Palatnik is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Management at The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, a Senior Researcher at the NRERC, University of Haifa, Archimedes, Tel Aviv University and ATHENA Research Center in Greece, and a Senior Guest Research Scholar at IIASA, Austria. Her research bridges economics and sustainable development, with a focus on climate policy, energy economics, agricultural economics, water-resource adaptation, and circular bioeconomy solutions.
She specializes in quantitative policy analysis using computable general equilibrium models, integrated assessment models, mathematical programming, option-value analysis, and econometric methods. Her work has informed Israeli climate and energy policy, including carbon pricing discussions, and has been supported by national and international agencies such as the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, BARD, PRIMA, and the European Commission. She has published widely in leading journals on topics including carbon taxation, energy transitions, alternative water sources, food security, algae-based supply chains, and climate adaptation, and she is active in academic leadership, and international scientific committees.