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Energy and the Environment

At the intersection of physical sciences and policy, our researchers work to find solutions for hunger, environmental degradation, emerging energy markets and more.

Research Spotlight

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Economic Policy Challenges Facing California's Next Governor: Electricity Policy Reform

Because Californians are likely to want to continue to lead the energy transition, the relevant policy design question is: How can the state achieve these low-carbon energy goals in a more cost- effective manner?

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Climate Change is Increasing the Risk of Extreme Autumn Wildfire Conditions Across California

The climate model analyses presented here suggest that continued climate change will further amplify the number of days with extreme fire weather by the end of this century, though a pathway consistent with the UN Paris commitments would substantially curb that increase.

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Sight for Sorghums: Comparisons of Satellite- and Ground-Based Sorghum Yield Estimates in Mali

Leveraging a survey experiment in Mali, this study uses plot-level sorghum yield estimates, based on farmer reporting and crop cutting, to construct and evaluate estimates from three satellite-based sensors.

Featured Scholars

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Ertharin Cousin

Visiting Scholar at the Center on Food Security and the Environment

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David Lobell

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment

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Rosamond Naylor

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

William Wrigley Professor of Earth System Science

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Frank Wolak

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development

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Publications

Testimonies

Disrupting Terrorist Travel: Safeguarding America's Borders Through Information Sharing

U.S. House of Representatives, 2004

Journal Articles

Cost-related Medication Underuse: Do Patients with Chronic Illnesses Tell their Doctors?

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Archives of Internal Medicine, 2004

Books

After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transition

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Cambridge University Press, 2004

Working Papers

Quantifying Creative Destruction: Entrepreneurship and Productivity in New Zealand

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Reestablishing the Judicial System in Afghanistan

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Journal Articles

Translating research into practice: organizational issues in implementing automated decision support for hypertension in three medical centers

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Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2004

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Transformation Of Child Health In The United States, The

Health Affairs, 2004

Journal Articles

What Went Wrong in Iraq?

Foreign Affairs, 2004

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Race/Ethnicity and Patient Satisfaction: Using the Appropriate Method to Test for Perceived Differences in Care

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2004

Working Papers

South Asia and the Nuclear Future: Rethinking the Causes and Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation

CISAC, 2004

Working Papers

The Quality of Democracy

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Journal Articles

The Party Elite and China's Trajectory of Change

China: An International Journal, 2004

Working Papers

Equality and Difference: Regional Courts and Women's Human Rights

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Journal Articles

Consumers' Use of the Internet for Health Insurance

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American Journal of Managed Care, 2004

Journal Articles

Misunderestimating Terrorism

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Foreign Affairs, 2004

Working Papers

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies, Vol. 1: Series Overview and Methodology

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Stanford-UCSF Evidence-based Practice Center, for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2004

Working Papers

Sovereignty Relinquished: Explaining Commitment to the International Human Rights Covenants, 1966-1999

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Commentary

Proposition 69 Could Threaten Privacy of DNA

San Francisco Chronicle, 2004

Books

Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles For Water and Power

Cornell University Press, 2004

Journal Articles

Underuse of Evidence-Based Therapies

Circulation, 2004

Working Papers

Sources of Rationalized Governance: Cross-National Longitudinal Analyses, 1985-2002

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

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Trade Liberalization and Growth: New Evidence

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

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Rule of Law? Whose Law?

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

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A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

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Borders and Growth

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004