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Policy Design & Analysis
How to Fix America’s Fuel Future (2012)
Energy.AOL.com
Daniel Sperling and Madhu Khanna
Bringing Science Back to the Keystone Pipeline Decision (2012)
TheHill.com
Daniel Sperling
Toward a Global Low Carbon Fuel Standard (2010)
Transport Policy
Daniel Sperling and Sonia Yeh
Low Carbon Fuel Standards: Implementation Scenarios and Challenges (2010)
Energy Policy
Daniel Sperling and Sonia Yeh
Transforming the Oil Industry into the Energy Industry (2009)
Access (University of California Transportation Center)
Daniel Sperling and Sonia Yeh
Low Carbon Fuel Standards (2009)
Issues in Science and Technology
Daniel Sperling and Sonia Yeh
A low-carbon fuel standard for California, Part 1: Technical analysis (2007)
Alexander E. Farrell and Daniel Sperling
A Low-Carbon Fuel Standard for California, Part 2: Policy Analysis (2007)
Alexander E. Farrell and Daniel Sperling
Land Use Change Impacts
Effects of US maize ethanol on global land use and greenhouse gas emissions: Estimating market-mediated responses (2010)
Thomas W. Hertel, Alla A. Golub, Andrew D. Jones, Michael O’Hare, Richard J. Plevin and Daniel M. Kammen
Economic Studies
The Market-Mediated Effects of Low Carbon Fuel Policies (2012)
Xiaoguang Chen, Madhu Khanna
Can biofuels be a solution to climate change? The implications of land use change-related emissions for policy (2011)
Madhu Khanna, Christine L. Crago and Mairi Black
Meeting the Mandate for Biofuels: Implications for Land Use, Food and Fuel Prices (2012)
Xiaoguang Chen, Haixiao Huang, Madhu Khanna, Hayri Önal
Market and social welfare effects of the renewable fuels standard (2010)
Amy W. Ando, Madhu Khanna and Farzad Taheripour
Scenarios and Feasibility
An integrated biogeochemical and economic analysis of bioenergy crops in the Midwestern United States (2010)
Atul K Jain, Madhu Khanna, Mathew Erickson, Haixiao Huang
Global Scenarios for Biofuels: Impacts and Implications (2008)
Mark Rosegrant, Tingju Zhu, Siwa Msangi, Timothy Sulser
Sustainability
Biofuels production in developing countries: assessing tradeoffs in welfare and food security (2009)
Mandy Ewing, Siwa Msangi
Implementing Performance-Based Sustainability Requirements for the Low Carbon Fuel Standard – Key Design Elements and Policy Considerations (2009)
Sonia Yeh, Daniel A. Sumner, Stephen R. Kaffka, Joan M. Ogden, Bryan M. Jenkins
Carbon Intensity of Fuels
Uncertainty Analysis of Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Petroleum-Based Fuels and Impacts on Low Carbon Fuel Policies (2010)
Aranya Venkatesh, Paulina Jaramillo, W. Michael Griffin, and H. Scott Matthews
Policy Implications of Uncertainty in Modeled Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Biofuels (2010)
Kimberley A. Mullins, W. Michael Griffin, and H. Scott Matthews
Determining marginal electricity for near-term plug-in and fuel cell vehicle demands in California: Impacts on vehicle greenhouse gas emissions (2010)
Ryan McCarthy, Christopher Yang
Energy Security and the Oil Market
Estimating the Energy Security Benefits of Reduced U.S. Oil Imports (2007)
Paul N. Leiby
Oil Independence: Achievable National Goal or Empty Slogan? (2007)
Greene , D.L., P.N. Leiby, P.D. Patterson, S.E. Plotkin and M. Singh
Reassessing the Oil Security Premium (2010)
Brown and Huntington