2024
Toward an evidence-informed, responsible, and inclusive debate on solar geoengineering: A response to the proposed non-use agreement. (2024) with Ted Parson, Holly Buck, Sikina Jinnah, and Simon Nicholson.WIREs Climate Change, e903. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.903
Scaling Carbon Removal Systems: Deploying Direct Air Capture Amidst Canada’s Low Carbon Transition (2024) with Stephanie Cortinovis, Neil Craik, Kasra Motlaghzadeh, Vanessa Schweizer. Frontiers in Climate Vol 6, May 20 Download
Food without agriculture (2024) with Steven J Davis, Kathleen Alexander, Chaopeng Hong, Matthew Shaner, Ken Caldeira, Ian McKay, Nature Sustainability Vol 7, 90-95 Download
Solar Geoengineering, Learning and Experimentation (2024) with David Kelly, Garth Heutel and Soheil Shayegh. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Download
2023
The value of reducing the Green Premium: cost-saving innovation, emissions abatement, and climate goals (2023) with Ken Caldeira and Lei Duan. Environmental Research Letter Vol 18 104051 Download
Key uncertainties behind global projections of direct air capture deployment (2023) with Kasra Motlaghzadeh, Vanessa Schweizer, Neil Craig. Applied Energy Vol 348 121485 Download
Climate Cooperation in the Shadow of Solar Geoengineering: An Experimental Investigation of the Moral Hazard Conjecture (2023) with Todd Cherry, Stephan Kroll, David McEvoy and David Campoverde. Environmental Politics Vol 374, Issue 6569•pp. 815-818 Download
2022
Governance of Working Landscapes: A Conceptual Framework (2022) with Raphael Anammasiya Ayambire, Jeremy Pittman, Michael Drescher and Andrea Olive. Sustainability Science Download
Defining and Advancing the Study and Practice of Sustainability Management (2022) with David Billedeau. J. Mgmt. & Sustainability 12, 52 Download
2021
Social science research to inform solar geoengineering (2021) with Joseph Aldy, Tyler Felgenhauer, William Pizer, Massimo Tavoni, Mariia Belaia, Mark Borsuk, Arunabha Gosh, Garth Heutel, Daniel Heyen, Joshua Horton, David Keith, Christine Merk, Jesse Reynolds, Katharine Ricke, Wilfried Rickels, Soheil Shayegh, Hwake Smith, Simone Tilmes, Gernot Wagner and Jonathan Wiener. Science Vol 374, Issue 6569•pp. 815-818 Download
Regulating Geoengineering: International Competition and Cooperation (2021) with Soheil Shayegh and Garth Heutel in Climate Geoengineering: Science, Law and Governance pp 229-247 Download
Energy Efficiency in General Equilibrium with Input-Output Linkages (2021) with Christopher Blackburn, forthcoming Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Optimal Climate Policy in 3D: Mitigation, Carbon Removal and Solar Geoengineering (2021) with Mariia Belaia and David Keith, Climate Change Economics, 2150008 Download
From fAIrplay to Climate Wars: Making climate change scenarios more dynamic, creative and integrative (2021) with Laura Pereira, David Morrow, Valentina Aquila, Brian Beckage, Sam
Beckbesinger, Lauren Beukes, Holly Buck, Colin Carlson, Oliver Geden, Andrew Jones, David Keller, Katherine Mach, Mohale Mashigo, Daniele Visioni, Simon Nicholson, Christopher Trisos, Forthcoming Ecology and Society
2020
Balancing climate and development goals (2020) with Lei Duan and Ken Caldeira, Environmental Research Letters, vol 15, 124057 Download
Break-even year: a concept for understanding intergenerational trade-offs in climate change mitigation policy (2020) with Patrick Brown and Ken Caldeira, Environmental Research Communications, Vol 2, no 9 Download
Who Turns the Global Thermostat and by How Much? (2020) with Wilfried Rickels, Martin Quaas, Kate Ricke, Johannes Quaas and Sjak Smulders forthcoming Energy Economics Download
Food, Fuel and the Domesday Economy (2020) with M. Scott Taylor, European Economic Review, Volume 128, September 2020, 103501 Download
Do Pilot and Demonstration Projects Work? Evidence from a Green Building Program (2020) with Christopher J. Blackburn Mallory E. Flowers and Daniel C. Matisoff forthcoming Journal of Policy Analysis and Management Download
Modeling migration patterns in the USA under sea-level rise (2020) with Caleb Robinson and Bistra Dilkina PlosONE 15(1): e0227436 Download
Climate econometric models indicate solar geoengineering would reduce inter-country income inequality (2020) with Anthony R. Harding, Katharine Ricke, Daniel Heyen, Douglas G. MacMartin Nature Communications 11, 227 Download
Geo-Wedges: A Portfolio Approach to Geoengineering the Climate (2020) with Kate Ricke. In Comprehensive Renewable Energy, 2nd edition Download PDF
2019
Understanding the industrial contribution to pollution offers opportunities to further improve air quality in the United States (2019) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol 116 no6, pp 19768–19770 Download
Solar Geoengineering: Social Sciences, Legal, Ethical and Economic Frameworks. (2019) with Jane A Flegal, Anna-Maria Hubert, David R Morrow. Annual Review of Environment and Resources Vol 44. Download
Induced Energy-Saving Efficiency Improvements Amplify Effectiveness of Climate Change Mitigation. (2019) with Rong Wang, Harry Saunders, Ken Caldeira. Joule 3, no. 9, 2103-2119. Download
Can virtual water trade save water resources? (2019) with Xi Liu, Huibin Du, Zengkai Zhang, John C Crittenden, Michael L Lahr, Dabo Guan, Zhifu Mi, Jian Zuo. Water Research Vol 163, 114848. Download
The impact of climate change on fertility (2019) with Gregory Casey, Soheil Shayegh, Martin Bunzl, Oded Galor and Ken Caldeira. Environmental Research Letters Vol 14, no 5. Download
Strategic implications of counter-geoengineering: Clash or cooperation? (2019) with Daniel Heyen and Joshua Horton. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Vol95, 153-177. Download
Liberalisation lowers primary energy efficiency: Evidence from twin power systems (2019) with Eve Tsybina and Alexey Tereshin. Energy Vol 173, 423-435. Download
The Economics of Geoengineering (2019) with Tony Harding. Chapter 25 in Managing Global Warming: An Interface of Technology and Human Issues. pp 729-750 Download
2018
Maize and Precolonial Africa. (2018) with Jevan Cherniwchan. Journal of Development Economics Vol 136, 137-150. Download
Solar Geoengineering, Uncertainty, and the Price of Carbon. (2018) with Garth Heutel and Soheil Shayegh. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Vol 87, 24-41 Download
The Economics of Climate Engineering (2018) with Katharine Ricke and Gernot Wagner. Chapter 7 in Geoengineering our Climate? Ethics, Politics and Governance. Download
2017
Toward Deep-Decarbonization: An energy-service system framework. (2017) with Chris Blackburn and Tony Harding. Curr Sustainable Renewable Energy Rep. DOI 10.1007/s40518-017-0088-y. Download
Will the use of a carbon tax for revenue generation produce an incentive to continue carbon emissions? (2017) with Rong Wang and Ken Caldeira. Environmental Research Letters. Vol 12, no 6. Download
An Energy-centric Theory of Agglomeration. (2017) with M. Scott Taylor. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Vol 84, 250-260. Download
Air pollutants emission from economic sectors in China: A linkage analysis (2017) with Yuan Wang, Nan Lai, Guozhu Mao, Jian Zuo, John Crittenden, Yi Jin. Ecological Indicators, Vol 77, 250-260. Download
Revisiting the economics of climate change: the role of geoengineering. (2017) with Sjak Smulders. Research in Economics, Vol 71, 212–224. Download
2016
Solar geoengineering: from incredible to inevitable and half-way back. (2016) with Tony Harding. Earth’s Future. Vol 4, no 12, 569–577 Download
Adapting to rates versus amounts of climate change: a case of adaptation to sea-level rise. (2016) with Soheil Shayegh and Ken Caldeira. Environmental Research Letters. Vol 11, no 10. Download
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Climate tipping points and solar geoengineering. (2016) with Garth Heutel and Soheil Shayegh. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Vol 132, Part B, pp 19-45. Download
Opportunities for advances in climate change economics. (2016) with M. Burke, M. Craxton, C. D. Kolstad, C. Onda, H. Allcott, E. Baker, L. Barrage, R. Carson, K. Gillingham, J. Graff-Zivin, M. Greenstone, S. Hallegatte, W. M. Hanemann, G. Heal, S. Hsiang, B. Jones, D. L. Kelly, R. Kopp, M. Kotchen, R. Mendelsohn, K. Meng, G. Metcalf, R. Pindyck, S. Rose, I. Rudik, J. Stock, R. S. J. Tol. Science. Vol 352, pp. 292-293. Download
Climate Engineering Economics. (2016) with Garth Heutel and Kate Ricke. Annual Review of Resource Economics. Vol 8, Pages 99-118 Download
Policy thresholds in mitigation. (2016) with Katharine L. Ricke, Jacob Schewe, Anders Levermann and Ken Caldeira, Nature Geoscience. Vol 9, no. 1, Pages 5-6. Download
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2015
Regional energy rebound effect: the impact of economy-wide and sector level energy efficiency improvement in Georgia, USA. (2015) with Xuewei Yu and John C. Crittenden. Energy Policy. Vol 87, Pages 250–259. Download
A New Approach for Optimal Electricity Planning and Dispatching with Hourly Time-Scale Air Quality and Health Considerations. (2015) with Paul Y Kerl, Wenxian Zhang, Thanos Nenes, Matthew J Realff, Armistead G Russell, Joel Sokol and Valerie M. Thomas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol 112, no. 35, Pages 10884-10889. Download
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Mitigation and the geoengineering threat. (2015) Resource and Energy Economics Vol 41, Pages 248-263 Download
The Alternatives to Unconstrained Climate Change: Emissions Reductions versus carbon and solar geoengineering (2015) with Scott Barrett. Chapter 25 in Towards a workable and effective climate regime. Download
Does Atlanta Value MARTA? Selecting an autoregressive model to recover willingness to pay. (2015) with Gregory Macfarlane and Laurie Garrow. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice Vol 78, Pages 214-230 Download
2013
The Intergenerational Transfer of Solar Radiation Management Capabilities and Atmospheric Carbon Stocks. (2013) with Timo Goeschl and Daniel Heyen. Environmental and Resource Economics Vol 56, Issue 1, pp 85-104 Download
Strategic incentives for climate geoengineering coalitions to exclude broad participation. (2013) with Katharine Ricke and Ken Caldeira. Environmental Research Letters 8 (1), 014021 Download
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Climate Policy under Uncertainty: A Case for Solar Geoengineering. (2013) with David Keith. Climatic Change Vol 121, Issue 3, pp 431-444 Download
2012
A simple model to account for regional inequalities in the effectiveness of solar radiation management. (2012) with Katharine Ricke and David Keith. Climatic Change, Vol 110, Issue 3-4, pp 649-668 Download