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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.

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Governing Policy Experiments in Chinese Cities: Lessons on Effective Climate Mitigation

Case studies on Chinese cities indicates that political leadership is critical in achieving progress on decarbonization and that combining policy coherence with local priorities is key to maintaining climate priorities over the long-term.

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Reducing Emissions and Air Pollution from Informal Brick Kilns: Evidence from Bangladesh

Researchers offer data-backed interventions that can improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions in "zigzag” brick kilns in Bangladesh while also decreasing fuel costs and increasing brick quality.

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An example of a desalination plant in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.

Thinking Outside the Basin: Evaluating Israel’s Desalinated Climate Resilience Strategy

Israel’s experience demonstrates how inter-basin desalination transfers can strengthen water security and offer a replicable framework for other regions confronting climate-induced scarcity.

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Featured Scholars

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Jennifer Burney

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Deputy Director of 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

Commentary

Censoring Science Won't Make Us Any Safer

Washington Post, 2005

Working Papers

Optimal intensity targets for emissions trading under uncertainty

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Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #41, 2005

Working Papers

Energy Transitions in Developing Countries: a Review of Concepts and Literature

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Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #40, 2005

Working Papers

Lessons in safety climate and safety practices from a California hospital consortium

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in "Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation", 2005

Journal Articles

Fugitive Salmon: Assessing the Risks of Escaped Fish from Net-Pen Aquaculture

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BioScience, 2005

Journal Articles

NPT Withdrawal: Time for the Security Council to Step In

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Arms Control Today, 2005

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BP's emissions trading system

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Energy Policy, 2005

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Right to Withdraw from the NPT: Article X is Not Unconditional, The

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Disarmament Diplomacy, 2005

Books

Prospects for Peace in South Asia

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Stanford University Press: Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2005

Journal Articles

Health Care Vouchers - A Proposal for Universal Coverage

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New England Journal of Medicine, 2005

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Agricultural runoff fuels large phytoplankton blooms in vulnerable areas of the ocean

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Nature, 2005

Books

World Religions and Democracy

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The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005

Policy Briefs

Preventing Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Terrorism: Essential Steps to Reduce the Availability of Nuclear-Explosive Materials

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CISAC/PS&GS, 2005

Working Papers

Baker Institute World Gas Trade Model, The

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Working Papers

Political and Economic Influences on the Future World Market for Natural Gas

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2005

Journal Articles

Dangerous Doctrine: How New U.S. Nuclear Plans Could Backfire

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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2005

Journal Articles

A Herd Mentality in the Design of International Environmental Agreements?

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Global Environmental Politics, 2005

Working Papers

Financial Reform and Transition in China: A Study of the Evolution of Banks in Rural, Coastal Areas

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2005

Journal Articles

Future seascapes, fishing, and fish farming

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Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2005

Working Papers

Politics, Markets, and the Shift to Gas: Insights from Seven Historical Case Studies

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Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #35, 2005

Journal Articles

The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances: The Twentieth Century United States

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Demography, 2005

Working Papers

Experience with Independent Power Projects (IPPs) in Developing Countries: Interim Report, The

Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #39, 2005

Journal Articles

Combining Field Surveys, Remote Sensing and Regression Trees to Understand Yield Variations in an Irrigated Wheat Landscape

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Agronomy Journal, 2005

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Patterns of Corporate Restructuring in China: Political Constraints on Privatization

China Journal, 2005

Working Papers

Baseline for carbon emissions in the Indian and Chinese power sectors: implications for international carbon trading

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Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #34, 2005