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• Energy R&D
• Energy Policy
• Energy Use
• Energy and Health
• Photovoltaics
• Hydrogen Economy and Fuel Cells
• Biomass
• Climate Change
• Economic Development
• Risk Analysis
• Student Theses

NEW

• Daniel Kammen. The Rise of Renewable Energy, Scientific American, September 2006.

• Jenn Baka, Frank Ling, Daniel Kammen. "Towards Energy Independence in 2025". RAEL White Paper prepared with support from Americans for Energy Independence. March, 2006.

• Daniel Kammen. "Global Climate Change in California and Beyond - Is There a Way Out? Feasible and Affordable Solutions".National Testimony Informational Hearings: Sonoma and Marin Counties. March 10, 2006.

• Alexander E. Farrell, Richard J. Plevin, Brian T. Turner, Andrew D. Jones, Michael O'Hare, and Daniel M. Kammen. Ethanol Can Contribute To Energy and Environmental Goals. Science, 311, p. 506. January, 2006.
• Model and supplemental materials

• Micah Lang, Forest Kaser, Fermin Reygadas, Kara Nelson & Daniel Kammen. "Meeting the Need for Safe Drinking Water in Rural Mexicao Through Point-of-Use Treatment". Paper No. 5, February, 2006.

• "Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in California". Project Directors: W. Michael Hanemann and Alexander E. Farrell. CALIFORNIA CLIMATE CHANGE CENTER, UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA at BERKELEY
• California Climate Center (Full Report and Press)
• Arne Jacobson, Daniel Kammen. "Science and Engineering Research That Values the Planet"." The Bridge, Winter, 2005.

• Rebecca Ghanadan, Jonathan G. Koomey. "Using Energy Scenarios to Explore Alternative Energy Pathways in California." Energy Policy, 33(9), 1117-1142.

• J.H. Williams, R. Ghanadan. (2006) "Electricity Reform in Developing and Transition Countries: >A Reappraisal." Energy Journal, 31: 815-844.

ENERGY R&D

• Daniel M. Kammen, Gregory F. Nemet. "Real Numbers: Reversing the Incredible Shrinking Energy R&D Budget." Issues in Science Technology, Volume 84, September, 2005.
• Appendix.
• Margolis, R. and D.M. Kammen (2001) "Energy R&D and Innovation: Challenges and Opportunities for Technology and Climate Policy", A Reader in Climate Change Policy, S. Schneider, A. Rosencranz, and J. Niles eds., (Island Press: Washington, DC). (Word)
  Also see Accompanying Figures in Excel format

• Kammen, D.M. (2000) "Investing in Innovation: Energy R&D Policy," Environmental Review: A Monthly Newsletter of Environmental Science and Policy, 7(3), pp. 8-14. (Interview) (PDF)

• Margolis, R.M. and D.M. Kammen (1999), "Underinvestment: The Energy Technology and R&D Policy Challenge," Science, 285, pp. 690-693. (PDF)

• Kammen, D.M. and R.M. Margolis (1999) "R&D Corner: Under-Investment: The Energy Technology and R&D Policy Challenge," Deregulation Weekly, 2(15), pp. 8-11. (PDF)

• Kammen, D.M. and R.M. Margolis (1999) "Evidence of Under-Investment in Energy R&D Policy in the United States and the Impact of Federal Policy," Energy Policy, 27(10), pp. 575-584. (PDF)

ENERGY POLICY

• J.H. Williams, R. Ghanadan. (2006) "Electricity Reform in Developing and Transition Countries: >A Reappraisal." Energy Journal, 31: 815-844.

• Daniel M. Kammen, Gregory F. Nemet. "Real Numbers: Reversing the Incredible Shrinking Energy R&D Budget." Issues in Science Technology, Volume 84, September, 2005.
• Appendix.

• Dan Kammen's Testimony at the California State Assembly select committee meeting on air and water quality. August 11, 2005.
• Flyer: The Climate Change Crisis...Can California Create a Way Out?

• Daniel Kammen. "An Energy Policy for the 21st Century." Policy Matters, Vol.2, No. 2. Spring 2005, pp. 14-19.

• Alexander Shlyakhter, Daniel M. Kammen, Claire Broido & Richard Wilson, "Quantifying the credibility of energy properties from trends in past data: The US Energy Sector" Energy Policy (1994).

• Arne Jacobson, Anita D. Milman & Daniel M. Kammen (2004), "Letting the (Energy) Gini Out of the Bottle: Lorentz Curves of Cumulative Electricity Consumption and Gini Coefficients as Metrics of Energy Distribution and Equity" Energy Policy33 (2005) 1825-1832.

• Greacen, Chris. 2003. "Small is Pitiful: Micro-Hydroelectricity and the Politics of Rural Electricity Provision in Thailand." Presented at "Politics of the Commons: Articulating Development and Strengthening Local Practices", Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 11-14, 2003.

• Hultman, N.E. and D.M. Kammen (2003) "Equitable Carbon Revenue Distribution Under an International Emissions Trading Regime." Prepared for the International Conference on Natural Assets: Tagaytay City, Philippines (January 2003). (PDF)

• Natacha Gondran, Daniel M. Kammen (2003), in press "From pluridisciplinarity for general engineers towards interdisciplinarity to train ecocitizen engineers" (PDF in French) In Press

• Kammen, D.M. (2002) "Energy Initiative for the World Summit on Sustainable Development," Letter to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, August 15, 2002. 4 pgs. (PDF)

• Herzog, A.V., T.E. Lipman, J.L. Edwards, and D.M. Kammen (2001) "Renewable Energy: A Viable Choice," Environment, 43(10), pp. 8-20. (PDF)

• Kammen, D. M. (2001) "Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Policies and the California Energy Crisis", in Controllers Quarterly: Energy in California Office of Cathleen Connell, California Sate Controller (Summer 2001).

• Kammen, D.M., A.V. Herzog, and T.E. Lipman (2001), "A National Clean Energy Strategy," Letter to Vice President Richard Cheney, February 16, 2001. (PDF)

ENERGY USE

• Rebecca Ghanadan, Jonathan G. Koomey. "Using Energy Scenarios to Explore Alternative Energy Pathways in California." Energy Policy, 33(9), 1117-1142.
• Edwards, J. L., C. Marnay, E. Bartholomew, B. Ouaglal, A.S. Siddiqui, and K.S.H. LaCommare (2002) "Assessment of Microgrid Distributed Energy Resource Potential Using DER-CAM and GIS," Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report LBNL-50132 (Berkeley CA). (PDF)

• Herzog, A.V., T.E. Lipman, and D.M. Kammen (2001) "Renewable Energy Sources," in, OUR FRAGILE WORLD: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development, forerunner to the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Volume 1, Section 1 (UNESCO-EOLSS Secretariat, EOLSS Publishers Co. Ltd.). (PDF). URL: http://www.eolss.net/

• Ross, J.P. and A. Meier (2000) "Whole-House Measurements of Standby Power Consumption," Proceedings of The Second International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Household Appliances, Naples (Italy), September. Also published as LBNL-45967. (PDF)

• Kammen, D.M. (1999) "Bringing Power to the People: Promoting Approrpiate Energy Technologies in the Developing World," Environment, 41(5), pp. 10-15, 34-41.

• Dove, M.R. and D.M. Kammen (1997) "The Virtues of Mundane Science," Environment, 39 (6), pp. 10-15, 38-41. (PDF)

• Kammen, D.M., A.I. Shlyakhter, C. Broido, and R. Wilson (1994) "Quantifying Credibility of Energy Projections from Trends in Past Data: The U.S. Energy Sector," Energy Policy, 22, pp. 119-131.

ENERGY AND HEALTH

• Robert Bailis, Majid Ezzati, Daniel M. Kammen. "Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Biomass and Petroleum Energy Futures in Africa." Science, Volume 308, April 1, 2005.
• Supporting On-line Material

• Robert Bailis, Majid Ezzati, Daniel M. Kammen. "The Role of Technology Management in the Dynamics of Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Household Energy Use in Sub-Saharan Africa." The Journal of Environment and Development, Volume 14, No. 1, March 2005, 149-174.

• Cohn, A., L. Connelly, S. Brownell, K. Nelson, and D.M. Kammen (2003) "Design and Evaluation of a Low-Cost Point-of-Use Ultraviolet Water Disinfection Device." (PDF) Figure 1: Schematic of UV disinfection device

• Ezzati, M. and D.M. Kammen (2002) "Evaluating the Health Benefits of Transitions in Household Energy Technologies in Kenya," Energy Policy, 30 (2002), pp. 815-826. (PDF)

• Ezzati, M. and D.M. Kammen (2002) "Household Energy, Indoor Air Pollution, and Health in Developing Countries: Knowledge Base for Effective Interventions," Annual Review Energy and Environment, 27 (2002), pp. 233-270. (PDF)

• Ezzati, M. and D.M. Kammen (2002) "The Health Impacts of Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution from Solid Fuels in Developing Countries: Knowledge, Gaps, and Data Needs," Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 110 No. 11 (2002), pp. 1057-1068. (PDF)

• Utzinger, J., M. Tanner, D.M. Kammen, G.F. Killeen, and B.H. Singer (2002) "Integrated Programme is Key to Malaria Control," published as a correspondence letter in Nature, Vol. 419, October 3, 2002. (PDF)

• Ezzati, M. and D.M. Kammen (2001) "Indoor Air Pollution from Biomass Combustion and Acute Respiratory Infections in Kenya: an Exposure-Response Study," The Lancet, 358, pp. 619-624. (PDF)

• Ezzati, M. and D.M. Kammen (2001) "Quantifying the Effects of Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution from Biomass Combustion on Acute Respiratory Infections in Developing Countries," Environmental Health Perspectives, 109(5), pp. 481-488. (PDF)

• Saatkamp, B.D., O.R. Masera, and D.M. Kammen (2000) "Energy and Health Transitions in Development: Fuel Use, Stove Technology, and Morbidity in Jaracuaro, Mexico," Energy for Sustainable Development, 4(2), pp. 5-14. (PDF)

• Haines, A. and D.M. Kammen (2000) "Sustainable Energy and Health," Global Change & Human Health, 1(1), pp. 78-87. (PDF)

• Ezzati, M., B.M. Mbinda, and D.M. Kammen (2000) "Comparison of Emissions and Residential Exposure from Traditional and Improved Cookstoves in Kenya," Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T), 34 (2), pp. 578-583. View tables and figures. (PDF)

• Ezzati, M., H. Saleh, and D.M. Kammen, (2000) "The Contributions of Emissions and Spatial Microenvironments to Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution from Biomass Combustion in Kenya", Environmental Health Perspectives, 108(9), pp. 833-839.

• Kammen, D.M., M. Ezzati, and B.M. Mbinda (1999) "The Determinants of Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution from Biofuel Stoves," The Proceeding of Indoor Air 99: The 8th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, Edinburgh, Scotland, 3, pp. 171-176.

• Ezzati, M., D.M. Kammen, and B.M Mbinda (1999) "Field Research Programme on Energy Technology, Health, and the Environment," Boiling Point, 43, pp. 33-34.

• Ezzati, M., D.M. Kammen, and B.H. Singer (1999) "The Health Impacts of Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution from Biofuel Stoves in Rural Kenya", The Proceeding of Indoor Air 99: The 8th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, Edinburgh, Scotland, 3, pp. 130-135.

• Saatkamp, B. D., O. Masera, and D.M. Kammen (1999) "Energy and Health Transitions in Development Science and Planning: Fuel Use, Stove Technology, and Morbidity in Jarácuaro, México," Energy for Sustainable Development, 4(1).

• Kammen, D. M., Wahhaj, and M.A. Yiadom, (1999) Broad-Search Annotated Bibliography on Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) and Indoor Air Pollution With an Emphasis on Children Under Five in Developing Countries (Washington, DC: Environmental Health Project, US AID), 165 pp. (PDF version)

• Saatkamp, B. D., O. Masera, and D.M. Kammen (1998) "Social Versus Technical Visions of the Energy Ladder: Fuels, Stoves, and Indoor Air Pollution in Jarácuaro, México," Boiling Point, 40, pp. 16 - 18.

• Kammen, D.M. (1995) "Cookstoves for the Developing world," Scientific American, 273, pp. 72-75.

• Kammen, D. M. (1995) "From Energy Efficiency to Social Utility: Improved Cookstoves and the Small is Beautiful Model of Development," Energy as an Instrument for Socio-Economic Development, Goldemberg, J. and Johansson, T. B. (eds.) (United Nations Development Programme: New York), pp. 50-62.

• Kammen, D. M. (1994) "Cooking Can kill: An Update on Extreme Smoke Exposure from Traditional Cooking Fuels," African Technology Forum, 7 (1) , pp. 29-32.

• Kammen, D. M. (1993) "Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Improving Environmental Health in Developing Nations: a Program for Energy Management, Cooking Technology and Education," Nikkei Science, 260 (5), S6 - S19 [Japanese language version of Scientific American], and Global Industrial and Social Progress Research Institute Quarterly (in English).

• Kammen, D. M. and B. Fayemi Kammen (1992) "Energy, Food Preparation and Health in Africa: The Roles of Technology, Education, and Resource Management," African Technology Forum, 6 (1), pp. 11-14.

PHOTOVOLTAICS

• Richard Duke, Daniel Kammen. (2005). "Energy for Development: Solar Home Systems in Africa and Global Carbon Emmissions." Climate Change and Africa, ed. Pak Sum Low, Cambridge University Press. pp. 161-169.

• Duke, R.D. and D.M Kammen (2003) "Energy for Development: Solar Home Systems in Africa and Global Carbon Emissions," Climate Change for Africa: Science, Technology, Policy and Capacity Building, in press. (PDF)

• Jacobson, A. (2002) "AJ's Technical Tips: Small solar PV systems should have small batteries." Published as a feature column in Solarnet Newsletter, Vol. 3 No. 2. (PDF)
  

• Duke, R.D., A. Jacobson and D.M. Kammen (2002) "Photovoltaic Module Quality in the Kenyan Solar Home Systems Market," Energy Policy, 30 (2002), pp. 477-499. (PDF)

• Jacobson, A., R.D. Duke, and D.M. Kammen, (2000) "Amorphous Silicon PV Panels: Are They a Good Value for the Money?", Solarnet, 2(2), Nairobi, Kenya. (PDF)

• Duke, R.D., S. Graham, M. Hankins, A. Jacobson, D.M. Kammen, B. Osawa, S. Pulver, and E. Walther (2000) "Field Performance Evaluations of Amorphous Silicon (a-Si) Photovoltaic Systems in Kenya: Methods and Measurements in Support of a Sustainable Commercial Solar Energy Industry", ESMAP, World Bank.(PDF)

• Jacobson, A., R.D. Duke, D.M. Kammen, and M. Hankins (2000) "Field Performance Measurements of Amorphous Silicon Photovoltaic Modules in Kenya", in Conference Proceedings of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES), Madison, Wisconsin, June 16-21. (PDF)

• Kammen, D.M. (1996),"Household Power in a New Light: Policy Lessons, and Questions, for Photovoltaic Technology in Africa," Tiempo: Global Warming and the Third World, 20, pp. 1-8.

• Acker, D.A. and D.M. Kammen (1996) "The Quiet (Energy) Revolution: The Diffusion of Photovoltaic Power Systems in Kenya," Energy Policy, 24, pp. 81-111. (PDF)

HYDROGEN ECONOMY AND FUEL CELLS

• Timothy Lipman, Daniel M. Kammen, Joan Ogden, Daniel Sperling, et al. (July 9, 2004). "An Integrated Hydrogen Vision for California." A white paper/guidance document prepared with support from the Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation.

• Timothy Lipman (July 12, 2004). "What Will Power the Hydrogen Economy? Present and Future Sources of Hydrogen Energy." Analysis and Report Prepared for The National Resources Defense Council.

• Timothy Lipman, Gregory Nemet, Daniel M. Kammen. (June 30, 2004). "A Review of Advanced Power Technology Programs in the United States and Abroad Including Linked Transportation and Stationary Sector Developments." Prepared for the California Air Resources Board (ARB) and the California Stationary Fuel Cell Collaborative (CaSFCC).

• Lipman, T.E., J.L. Edwards, and D.M. Kammen (2004) "Fuel cell system economics: comparing the costs of generating power with stationary and motor vehicle PEM fuel cell systems," Energy Policy, 32, pp.101-125. (PDF)

• D.M. Kammen, T. Lipman (2003) "Assessing the Future Hydrogen Economy" Letter to Science (October 10, 2003) (PDF)

• Lipman, Timothy E., Jennifer L. Edwards, and Daniel M. Kammen (2002), "Economic Analysis of Hydrogen Energy Station Concepts: Are 'H2E-Stations' a Key Link to a Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Infrastructure?"

• Kammen, D.M. (2002) Testimony for the Hearing on 'The Role of Fuel Cells in the Renewable Roadmap to Energy Independence' for the U. S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy, February 21.

• Lipman, T.E., J.L. Edwards and D.M. Kammen (2002) "Economic Implications of Net Metering for Stationary and Motor Vehicle Fuel Cell Systems in California." Published as a Program on Workable Energy Regulation (POWER) working paper, University of California Energy Institute (Berkeley, CA): 74 pages. (PDF)

BIOMASS

• Robert Bailis, David Pennise, Majid Ezzati, Daniel M. Kammen, Evans Kituyi (2004). "Impacts of Greenhouse Gas and Particulate Emissions from Woodfuel Production and End-Use in Sub-Saharan Africa."

• Kammen, D. M., R. Bailis, and A.V. Herzog (2001) "Clean Energy for Development and Economic Growth: Biomass and Other Renewable Energy Options to Meet Energy and Development Needs in Poor Nations," UNDP report for the 7th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP7-UNFCCC): Marakech, Morocco (October 29 - November 9), 111 pages, in press. (PDF)

CLIMATE CHANGE

• Daniel M. Kammen, Debra J. Lew. (March 1, 2005). "Review of Technologies for the Production and Use of Charcoal." Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory Report #2

• Richard Duke, Daniel Kammen. (2005). "Energy for Development: Solar Home Systems in Africa and Global Carbon Emmissions." Climate Change and Africa, ed. Pak Sum Low, Cambridge University Press. pp. 161-169.

• Bailis, R., M. Ezzati and D.M. Kammen (2003) "Greenhouse Gas Implications of Household Energy Technology in Kenya," Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T), 37, pp.2051-2059. (PDF)

• Lipman, T.E. and M.A. Delucchi (2002) "Emissions of Nitrous Oxide and Methane from Conventional and Alternative Fuel Motor Vehicles," Climatic Change, 53 (2002), pp. 477-499. (PDF)

• Baer, P., J. Harte, B. Haya, A.V. Herzog, J. Holdren, N.E. Hultman, D.M. Kammen, R.B. Norgaard, and L. Raymond (2000) "Equity and Greenhouse Gas Responsibility," Science, 289, p. 2287. (PDF)

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group II and III (2000), Special Report on Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer (Cambridge University Press, New York, NY). Coordinating lead author.

• Kammen, D.M. and A.P. Kinzig (1998) "Aiming for Equity: Investing in Climate Insurance and Development," Tiempo: Global Warming and the Third World, 29, pp. 2-12.

• Kinzig, A. and D.M. Kammen (1998), "National Trajectories of Carbon Emissions: Analysis of Proposals to Foster the Transition to Low-Carbon Economics," Global Environmental Change, 8 (3), pp. 183 - 208.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• Daniel M. Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, Matthias Fripp (2004). "Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Generate?" A Report of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley.

• Kammen, Daniel M. 2004. "Renewable Energy Options for the Emerging Economy: Advances, Opportunities and Obstacles." Background paper for "The 10-50 Solution: Technologies and Policies for a Low-Carbon Future" Pew Center & NCEP Conference, Washington, D.C., March 25-26, 2004.

• Dove, M.R. and D.M. Kammen (2001), "Vernacular Models of Development: An Analysis of Indonesia Under the "New Order"," World Development, 29(4), pp. 619-639 . (PDF)

• Ezzati, M., B.H. Singer, and D.M. Kammen (2001) "Towards an Integrated Framework for Development and Environmental Policy: The Dynamics of Environmental Kuznets Curves," World Development, 29(8), pp. 1421-1434. (PDF)

• Duke, R.D. and D.M. Kammen (1999) "The Economics of Energy Market Transformation Initiatives," The Energy Journal, 20 (4), pp. 15-64. (Tables and Figures) (PDF)

RISK ANALYSIS

• Chiu, W.A., D.M. Hassenzahl and D.M. Kammen (1999) "A Comparison of Regulatory Implications of Traditional and Exact Two-stage Dose-response Models," Risk Analysis, 9 (10), pp. 15-22.

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