Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory

Position:
Visitors

Description:
Ph.D. (2004), Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
Dissertation: The Marginalization of "Small is Beautiful": Micro-hydroelectricity, Common Property, and the Politics of Rural Electricity Provision in Thailand
M.S. (1997) University of California, Berkeley (Energy and Resources Group)
B.A. (1991) Reed College (Physics)

Research Interests:
Community scale renewable energy and energy efficiency, rural electrification, energy and the environment in Asia; electricity restructuring and civil society.

Projects:
Palang Thai - a Thailand-based non-profit organization that works to ensure that the transformations that occur in the region's energy sector are economically rational, and that they augment, rather than undermine, social and environmental justice and sustainability.
The Border Green Energy Team provides hands-on solar and micro-hydro training for villages on both sides of the Thai / Burma border.
Wind Farm in North Korea

Position:
Alumni

Description:
Ph.D. candidate, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
B.Sc. (hons) University of New South Wales, Australia (Environmental Science)
B.A. University of New South Wales, Australia (History and Philosophy of Science)

Research Interests:
Sustainable energy use, focused in rural areas of Southeast Asia; renewable energy technology transfer especially of photovoltaic systems in Thailand and grid connected wind systems in China; gender and technology issues; climate change and equity concerns; globalization, regional hierarchies and power structures.

Personal Link:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~dlgreen

Projects:
Solar Battery Charging Stations

Position:
Alumni

Description:
M.A. Candidate, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
A.B. (1995) Stanford University (Human Biology)

Research Interests:
Renewable energy, rural development in Latin America, local and international energy policy, environmental justice and energy.

Position:
Alumni

Description:
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Post-doc and Lecturer (2006); Assistant Professor (starting in Jan '07)
Ph.D, (2006) Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
M.S. (1996) Northwestern University (Physics)
A.B. (1994) Penn State University (Physics)

Research Interests:
Social and environmental implications of energy resource exploitation in developing countries; Vulnerability and adaptation to environmental change

Personal Link:
http://environment.yale.edu/profile/362/rob_bailis/

Projects:

• Charcoal Production in Narok District of Kenya
• Social and environmental implications of the charcoal industry in Kenya
• Seeking sustainability pathways in Kenya's woodfuel sector
• Vulnerability to environmental change in forest-dependent communities in Central Mexico

PhD Dissertation: Fuel from the Savanna: the Social and Environmental Implications of the Charcoal Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa (7.5 MB)