J OEL D A R MS TA D TE R Senior Fellow 202.328.5050 darmstad@rff.org
EXPERTISE Climate: Carbon Pricing, Climate Mitigation Development and Environment: Global Trade, Sustainable Development Electricity: Electricity Markets and Regulation, Renewable and Clean Energy Energy: Energy Security, Natural Gas, Nuclear Energy, Oil, R&D Technology, Renewable and Clean Energy Policy and Analysis: Environmental Accounting, Regulation, Subsidies
In his four decades at RFF, Joel Darmstadter has conducted research centered on energy resources and policy. His recent work addresses issues of energy security and trade, renewable resources, and climate change. Darmstadter has served on numerous National Research Council bodies and provided expert testimony at congressional hearings. His career has included serving as an adjunct faculty member at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, an editorial committee member of the Annual Review of Energy, and a contributing editor of Environment magazine. EDUCATION • MA in economics, New School for Social Research, 1952 • AB in economics, George Washington University, 1950 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS The Supply Chain and Industrial Organization of Rare Earth Materials: Implications for the US Wind Energy Sector (with J.S. Shih, J. Linn, T.J. Brennan, and M.K. Macauley), RFF Report, Feb. 2012. Meeting the World’s Natural Resource Needs: Confrontation Ahead? RFF Issue Brief 11-07, Jun. 2011. Unconventional Fossil-Based Fuels: Economic and Environmental Trade-Offs (with M. Toman et al.), RAND Corporation, 2008. Global Development and the Environment: Perspectives on Sustainability (ed.), RFF Press, 1992. How Industrial Societies Use Energy: A Comparative Analysis (with J. Dunkerley and J. Alterman), RFF Press by Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.
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