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  August 17, 2005 - Alex Farrell, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley Committee Workshop on Clean Coal Technology Status and Potential Issues for California
Energy Policy "How Clean Is Clean, At What Cost, and When?" PDF.File

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Apt, J., Competition Has Not Lowered US Industrial Electricity Prices. The Electricity Journal, 2005. 18 (2): p. 52 - 61.
http://www.pulpny.org/html/_competition_has_not_lowered_u.html

Apt, J. and M.G. Morgan, Critical Electric Power Issues in Pennsylvania: Transmission, Distributed Generation, and Continuing Services when the Grid Fails. 2005, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. p. 102.
http://wpweb2.tepper.cmu.edu/ceic/pdfs_other/Critical_Electric_Power_Issues_in_Pennsylvania.pdf

Boyle, M. and H. Dowlatabadi, Bridging the gap between project level assessments and regional development dynamics, in The University of British Columbia: Vancouver. 2004. p. 78.
http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/015/0002/0032/index_e.htm

Boyle, M. and H. Dowlatabadi, Adaptive Management and Policy Decisions in a Changing Arctic Environment. ISEEE 2004.

Boyle, M., R. Gibson, and D. Curran, If Not Here, Then Perhaps Not Anywhere: Urban growth management as a tool for sustainability planning in British Columbia's Captial Regional District. Local Environement, 2004. 9(1).

DeCarolis, J.F. and D.W. Keith, The Economics of Large Scale Wind Power in a Carbon Constrained World. Energy Policy, 2004.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~keith/papers/72.Decarolis.2005.Threshold.e.pdf

DeCarolis, J.F. and D.W. Keith, The Costs of Wind's Variability: Is There a Threshold? The Electricity Journal, 2005. 18: p. 69-77.

Dowlatabadi, H., et al., Learning from history: lessons for cumulative effects assessment and planning. Meridian, 2004. Fall.Winter 2004: p. 6 - 12.

Dowlatabadi, H., et al., A Methodology for Estimating Cumulative Effects: Bridging the gap between project assessments and regional planning., O.C.E.A. Agency, Editor. 2004.

Farrell, Alexander e., Plevein, richard J., Turner, Brian T., Jones, Andrew. D., O'Hare, Michael, Kammen, Daniel M.; Ethanol Can contribute to Energy and Environmental Goals
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/311/5760/506
To study the potential effects of increased biofuel use, we evaluated six representative analyses of fuel ethanol. Studies that reported negative net energy incorrectly ignored coproducts and used some obsolete data. All studies indicated that current corn ethanol technologies are much less petroleum-intensive than gasoline but have greenhouse gas emissions similar to those of gasoline. However, many important environmental effects of biofuel production are poorly understood. New metrics that measure specific resource inputs are developed, but further research into environmental metrics is needed. Nonetheless, it is already clear that large-scale use of ethanol for fuel will almost certainly require cellulosic technology.

Gerwing, K. and T.L. McDaniels, Listening to the Salmon people: First Nations' objectives for salmon aquaculture decisions. Society and Natural Resources, February, 2005.

Gregory, R., B. Fischhoff, and T.L. McDaniels, Acceptable Input: Using Decision Analysis to Guide Public Policy Decisions. Decision Analysis, March, 2005.

Gregory, R. and T.L. McDaniels, Improving Environmental Decision Processes. 2005.

Hamouda, L., et al., The salmon aquaculture conflict in British Columbia: A Graph Model Analysis. Ocean & Coastal Management, 2005.

Johnson, T.L. and D.W. Keith, Fossil Electricity and CO2 Sequestration: How Natural Gas Prices, Initial Conditions and Retrofits Determine the Cost of Controlling CO2 Emissions. Energy Policy, 2004. 32: p. 367-382.

Keith, D.W., et al. The influence of large-scale wind-power on global climate. in National Academy of Sciences. 2004.

Keith, D.W., H. Hassanzadeh, and M. Pooladi-Darvish. Reservoir engineering to accelerate dissolution of stored CO2 in brines. in 7th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies. 2004: Elsevier.

Kunreuther, H. C., Michel-Kerjan, E. O.; "Climate Change, Insurability of Large-scale Disasters
and the Emerging Liability Challenge" File

Lave, L. B., Apt, J.; "Planning for natural disasters in a stochastic world" File

Mastrandrea, M.D. and S.H. Schneider, Probabilistic integrated assessment of "dangerous" climate change. Science, 2004. 304: p. 571 - 575. Abstract: Climate policy decisions are being made despite layers of uncertainty. Such decisions directly influence the potential for "dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system." We mapped a metric for this concept, based on Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment of climate impacts, onto probability distributions of future climate change produced from uncertainty in key parameters of the coupled social-natural system--climate sensitivy, climate damages, and discount rate. Analyses with a simple integrated assessment model found that, under midrange assumptions, endogenously calculated optimal climate policy controls can reduce the probability of dangerous anthropogenic interference
from ~45% under minimal controls to near zero.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/304/5670/571

McDaniels, T.L., Exploring Risk Perception and Cooperative Learning as Descriptive and Prescriptive Decision Frames for Climate Change. Climatic Change, 2005.

McDaniels, T.L., H. Dowlatabadi, and S. Stevens, Multiples and regulatory gaps in environmental change: the case of salmon aquaculture. Global Environmental Change, 2005.

McDaniels, T.L., H. Dowlatabadi, and S. Stevens, Multiple scales and regulatroy gaps in regulatory change: the case of salmon aquaculture. 2005.

McDaniels, T.L. and R. Gregory, Learning as an objective within structured decision processes for managing environmental risks. Environmental Science and Technology, April 2004. 38, 7: p. 1921 - 1926.

McDaniels, T.L. and W. Trousdale, Evaluating Losses of Traditional Native Values With Multi-attribute Value Assessment. Ecological Economics, 2005.

Palmgren, C.R., et al., Initial Public Perceptions of Deep Geological and Oceanic Disposal of Carbon Dioxide. Environmental Science and Technology, 2004. 38 (24): p. 6441-6450.
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/esthag/2004/38/i24/abs/es040400c.html

Rahmstorf, S. and K. Zickfeld, Thermohaline circulation changes: a question of risk assessment. Climatic Change, 2005. 68 (1 - 2): p. 241 - 247.
http://www.springerlink.com/media/320lrnvtwq2h5tpjhq06/contributions/l/7/2/4/l72418j26141vl41.pdf

Rubin, E.S., D.W. Keith, and C.F. Gilboy. Volume I: Peer-Reviewed Papers and Plenary Presentations. in Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies. 2004: Elsevier.

Shepherd, P., J. Tansey, and H. Dowlatabadi. Context matters: the political landscape of adaptation in the Okanagan. in Climatic Change.

Stolaroff, J.K., G.V. Lowry, and D.W. Keith, Using CaO- and MgO-rich Industrial Waste Streams for Carbon Sequestration. Energy Conversion and Management, 2005. 46: p. 687-699.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~keith/papers/68.Stolaroff.2005.CaOandMgOWastStreams.e.pdf

Zickfeld, K., T. Slawig, and S. Rahmstorf, A low-order model for the response of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation to climate change. Ocean Dynamics, 2004. 54: p. 8 - 26.
http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~stefan/Lectures/modellierung/zickfeld2004.pdf