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Alumni (8 results)
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Christian Miller
MPP, MS
Measuring California’s Energy Service Affordability (MS ’19) Christian is fascinated by energy end-uses’ effect on communities’ economic and political well-being. While his formal scientific background is in biorenewable resources, his ... Continue Reading »
- climate
- development
- economics
- energy
- energy policy
- equitable energy access
- rural electrification
- transportation
Monkgogi Otlhogile
MA
Monkgogi (who goes by MK) was born and raised in Botswana and recently graduated cum laude with her BA from Scripps College in Environment, Economics, and Politics. Personally, MK has ... Continue Reading »
Scott Zimmermann
MS
Sustainable Biofuels: Designing Indirect Land Use Change Regulations that are Compatible with International Trade Law (MS ’08)
Brian Turner
MS
E85, Flex-Fuel Vehicles, and AB 1493: Integrating biofuels into California’s vehicular greenhouse gas regulations (06 MS)
- natural lands conservation and restoration
- policy applications of environmental and ecological economics
- water policy & planning
Richard Plevin
MS, PhD
California Policy Should Distinguish Biofuels by Differential Global Warming Effects (’06 MS) Life Cycle Regulation of Transportation Fuels: Uncertainty and its Policy Implications (’10 PhD)
- climate change and renewable energy - particularly biofuels
- modeling
- organic agriculture and mitigating environmental harm from bioenergy crop production
- whole-systems thinking
Andrew Jones
MS, PhD
Biofuel Boundaries: Estimating the Medium-Term Supply Potential of Domestic Biofuels (MS ’07) Land use change is a critical influence on the climate effects of climate policies (PhD ’12)
- Agroecology
- biogeochemistry
- climate policy
- market-based policy
- mathematical models
- social and ecological impacts of biofuels including food security/energy security/climate/land use issues
- transportation
Anand Gopal
PhD
Life of Sugar: Developing Lifecycle Methods to Evaluate the Energy and Environmental Impacts of Sugarcane Biofuels (PhD ’11)
Victoria Junquera
MS, PhD
Victoria became interested in food systems through her work on biofuels, first as an engineer at a biodiesel plant, and most recently at the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels. Victoria received ... Continue Reading »
- civic engagement as a driver of transitions
- externalities
- Sustainable food systems
- tragedy of the commons
- valuing public goods
News (1 results)
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California’s Cleaner Fuel Comes at Cost to Water: Report
March 18, 2015
Heather Cooley (MS'04) and PhD candidate Julian Fulton release California water footprint report from Pacific Institute.