Frontiers of Environmental Change Research

Below are relevant readings provided by the conference participants.


Brian O'Neill PDFDalton, M.G., O'Neill, B.C., Fuernkranz-Prskawetz, A., Jiang, L., Pitkin, J. Population Aging and Future Carbon Emissions in the United States. Submitted to Energy Economics.

PDFJiang, L. and B.C. O'Neill. (2004) The energy transition in rural China, International Journal of Global Energy Issues 21 (1/2), 2-26.

PDFO'Neill, B.C. and B. Chen (2002) Demographic determinants of household energy use in the United States. In Methods of Population-Environment Analysis, A Supplement to Population and Development Review 28, 53-88.

PDFs appear with permission of Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. and The Population Council.

Skee Houghton WHRC.org
Atul Jain http://isam.atmos.uiuc.edu/atuljain/
Mercedes Pascual Koelle, K., X. Rodo, M. Pascual, Md. Yunus, and G. Mostafa.  2005. Refractory periods to climate forcing in cholera dynamics. Nature 436(4): 696-700.
Hard copy of this article will be available at the conference.
Jim Clark http://www.biology.duke.edu/clarklab/publications.htm
Dan Kammen From his website, the following papers are most relevant:

PDFDaniel Kammen. "An Energy Policy for the 21st Century." Policy Matters, Vol.2, No. 2. Spring 2005, pp. 14-19.

PDFRobert Bailis, Majid Ezzati, Daniel M. Kammen. "Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Biomass and Petroleum Energy Futures in Africa." Science, Volume 308, April 1, 2005.

PDFMargolis, R.M. and D.M. Kammen (1999), "Underinvestment: The Energy Technology and R&D Policy Challenge," Science, 285, pp. 690-693

Mort Webster PDFThe Curious Role of "Learning" in Climate Policy: Should We Wait for More Data?

PDFUncertainty Analysis of Climate Change and Policy Response




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