Publications - Research Brief
Building a Robust and Representative Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Workforce
Abigail A. Varney, Cassandra Jurenci
Sustainability | White Paper | November 2024
Equitably Decarbonizing Electrified Transportation
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Climate | Sustainability | Research Brief | July 16, 2024
Building Antarctic Ocean Resilience through Climate-smart Marine Spatial Planning
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Oceans | Climate | Research Brief | July 1, 2024
Bay Area Water Supply Resilience and the Bay-Delta Plan
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Freshwater | Sustainability | Research Brief | March 15, 2024
Wildfire: Assessing and Quantifying Risk Exposure and Mitigation Across Western Utilities
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Climate | Sustainability | Research Brief | March 7, 2024
Monitoring Antimicrobial Use in Livestock Production: Learning from California
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Public Health | Food Security | Research Brief | Feb 28, 2024
Overcoming roadblocks to California's public EV charging infrastructure
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Climate | Sustainability | Research Brief | Feb 2024
Changing Our Diet to Meet Climate Goals
Eric Lambin, Simona Vallone
Climate | Food Security | Research Brief | Aug 18, 2023
California Wildfire Risk: Historical Frequency Can Lead to Inequities
Chris Field, Miyuki Hino
Climate | Research Brief | Apr 2, 2023
Environmental Water Markets: Addressing Shortages With or Without Legal Reform
Philip Womble, Leon Szeptycki, Allen Townsend
Climate | Conservation | Freshwater | Sustainability | Research Brief | Oct 11, 2022
Wildfire Smoke: Behavior Matters, But How to Best Influence It?
Marshall Burke, Sam Heft-Neal
Climate | Public Health | Research Brief | Aug 23, 2022
Optimizing Decentralized Water Recycling Systems
Meagan Mauter
Other | Freshwater | Sustainability | Research Brief | Nov 11, 2021
Timing is Everything: Sequencing Policy Interventions to Reduce Deforestation
Paul Furumo, Eric Lambin
Conservation | Sustainability | Research Brief | Oct 27, 2021
Local Decisions, Regional Impacts: Informing Sea-Level Rise Adaptation
Anne Guerry, Katie Arkema, Robert Griffin
Climate | Freshwater | Research Brief | Jul 11, 2021
Coastal Flood Adaptation: Inequities in the San Francisco Bay Area
Jenny Suckale, Leonard Ortolano, Derek Ouyang
Climate | Research Brief | Jul 6, 2021
Foreseeing the Impacts of Sea Level Rise
Jeremy Bailenson, Anna Carolina Muller Queiroz
Climate | Oceans | Research Brief | Jun 20, 2021
Coastal Flooding Increases Traffic Delays and Accidents
Jenny Suckale, Leonard Ortolano, Derek Ouyang, Indraneel Kasmalkar
Climate | Research Brief | Jun 9, 2021
The Changing Risk and Burden of Wildfire in the United States
Marshall Burke, Anne Driscoll, Sam Heft-Neal, Jiani Xue, Michael Wara
Climate | Research Brief | May 23, 2021
E. coli in Wildlife: What We Don't Know Might Hurt Us
Elizabeth Hadly, Katherine Lagerstrom
Research Brief | May 18, 2021
One Water Management Strategy For Improving Sustainability
Richard Luthy, Bridget Gile
Freshwater | Research Brief | Mar 24, 2021
Extreme Precipitation Changes Contribute to Increases in U.S. Flood Damages
Marshall Burke, Francis Davenport, Noah Diffenbaugh
Climate | Research Brief | Mar 17, 2021
How Master Limited Partnership (MLP) Eligibility for Renewables, Storage, Energy Efficiency and CCS Projects Will Lower Financing Costs and Cut Carbon Emissions
Jeff Brown, Dan Reicher
Climate | Research Brief | Mar 10, 2021
New Laws Reduce Barriers to Water Markets
Philip Womble, Michael Hanemann
Freshwater | Research Brief | Mar 8, 2021
New Coastal Water Quality Model Enables Better Beach Management
Alexandria Boehm, Ryan Searcy
Freshwater | Oceans | Public Health | Research Brief | Feb 1, 2021
Blue Carbon Sequestration: Benefits for Sub-National Climate Policy
Eric Hartge, Katie Arkema, James Douglass, Lisa Wedding, Aaron Strong, Gregg Verutes
Oceans | Research Brief | Jan 21, 2021
Arctic Ecosystems: Synergistic Effects of Ocean Stressors
Kevin Arrigo, Fiorenza Micheli, Jim Leape, Stephen Monismith, Nick Ouellette, Margaret Levi
Climate | Oceans | Research Brief | Jan 21, 2021
Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A Novel Sustainability Assessment of Desalination for Agriculture
Newsha Ajami, Gemma Smith
Freshwater | Research Brief | Oct 22, 2020
Increasing the Decision- Relevance of Ecosystem Service Science
Lisa Mandle, Rebecca Champlin-Kramer, Adrian Vogl, Jeffrey Smith, Gretchen Daily
Natural Capital | Research Brief | Oct 22, 2020
Desalinations Role in a Circular Water Economy
Meagan Mauter
Climate | Freshwater | Research Brief | Oct 5, 2020
Mitigating Climate and Air Pollution in the Transportation Sector: A Regional Approach
Ines Azevedo
Climate | Research Brief | Oct 5, 2020
Urban Traffic Resilience and Coastal Flooding
Jenny Suckale, Leonard Ortolano, Derek Ouyang, Indraneel Kasmalkar
Climate | Research Brief | Aug 5, 2020
Scaling Up Sustainable Solutions
Eric Lambin, Jim Leape, Hajin Kim, Kai Lee
Sustainability | Research Brief | Jul 23, 2020
Forest Loss and Human Activity Leads to Disease Transmission
Eric Lambin, Laura Bloomfield
Public Health | Research Brief | May 5, 2020
Climate Change Increases California Wildfire Risk
Noah Diffenbaugh, Michael Goss
Climate | Research Brief | May 3, 2020
Diversified Farms Promote Biodiversity and Buffer Climate Change Effects
Gretchen Daily, Nick Hendershot, Jeffrey Smith
Climate | Natural Capital | Research Brief | Apr 12, 2020
New Method to Improve Water Demand Management
Jose Bolorinos, Newsha Ajami, Ram Rajagopal
Freshwater | Research Brief | Apr 2, 2020
Wildfire Research at Stanford
Chris Field
Climate | Natural Capital | Public Health | Conservation | Research Brief | Mar 11, 2020
Prescribed Burns for Improved Wildfire Management in California
Rebecca Miller, Chris Field
Climate | Research Brief | Feb 29, 2020
Understanding and Countering the Motivations of Climate Change Denial
Gabrielle Wong-Parodi
Climate | Research Brief | Feb 19, 2020
Ocean Solutions That Address Climate Change Effects
Fiorenza Micheli
Climate | Oceans | Research Brief | Feb 18, 2020
Environmental Education Efforts Impact Conservation and Stewardship
Nicole Ardoin
Other | Conservation | Sustainability | Research Brief | Jan 23, 2020
A New Technique for Modeling Land Subsidence Facilitates Better Groundwater Management
Rosemary Knight
Freshwater | Research Brief | Dec 18, 2019
Preventing Wildfires Before They Start: New Biosafe Gel Retardant
Eric Appel, Craig Criddle
Climate | Research Brief | Dec 1, 2019
Climate Adaptation and Agriculture: Impacts on Perennial Crops
David Lobell, Chris Field
Climate | Food Security | Research Brief | Nov 19, 2019
Global Inequality and Climate Change
Noah Diffenbaugh, Marshall Burke
Climate | Research Brief | Aug 4, 2019
Innovative Ideas to Finance Resiliency in the Water Sector
Newsha Ajami, Kim Quesnel
Freshwater | Research Brief | Jul 8, 2019
Coastal Adaption Strategies: Integrating Science and Policy
Eric Hartge, Lisa Wedding
Oceans | Research Brief | Jul 7, 2019
Valuing Urban Nature Implications for Water Quantity and Quality Policy
Katie Arkema, Anne Guerry, Perrine Hamel
Research Brief | Jun 6, 2019
Valuing Urban Nature Implications for Air Quality, Heat Mitigation, and Emissions Reductions
Katie Arkema, Anne Guerry, Perrine Hamel
Research Brief | Jun 6, 2019
Valuing Urban Nature Implications for Flood Resilience
Katie Arkema, Anne Guerry, Perrine Hamel
Research Brief | Jun 5, 2019
Natural Climate Solutions and Decarbonization
Christa Anderson, Christopher Field, Pamela Matson
Climate | Research Brief | Apr 24, 2019
Simultaneous Climate Stressors Multiply Risks
Ali Sarhadi, Danielle Touma, Noah Diffenbaugh
Climate | Research Brief | Apr 9, 2019
The Impacts of High-Tide Flooding
Miyuki Hino, Samanthe Belanger, Alexander Davis, Christopher Field, Katharine Mach
Climate | Oceans | Research Brief | Feb 14, 2019
The Endangerment Finding: An Even Stronger Case Now
Philip B. Duffy, Noah Diffenbaugh, Scott C. Doney, Zoe Dutton, Sherri Goodman, Lisa Heinzerling, Solomon Hsiang, David Lobell, Loretta J. Mickley, Samuel Myers, Susan M. Natali, Camille Parmesan, Susan Tierney, A. Park Williams
Climate | Research Brief | Dec 12, 2018
Microplastics: Developing Standards that Inform Policy
Craig Criddle
Other | Research Brief | Nov 28, 2018
AquaCharge: A Design Tool for Balancing Groundwater Management Trade-Offs
Jonathan Bradshaw, Richard Luthy
Freshwater | Research Brief | Nov 6, 2018
Tools for Sustainable Fisheries: EcoCast and Dynamic Ocean Management
Elliot Hazen, Larry Crowder, Sarah Mesnick
Oceans | Research Brief | Oct 14, 2018
California Water: Quantity, Quality and Public Health
Rosemary Knight, Scott Fendorf, Ryan Smith
Freshwater | Research Brief | Oct 4, 2018
Air Pollution and its Health Impacts in Africa
Marshall Burke, Jennifer Burney, Eran Bendavid, Sam Heft-Neal
Food Security | Public Health | Research Brief | Aug 6, 2018
UN Paris Accord Targets: Extreme Events and Economic Effects
Noah Diffenbaugh, Marshall Burke
Climate | Research Brief | May 30, 2018
Profitable Opportunities for Carbon Removal During Biofuel Production
Daniel Sanchez, Nils Johnson, Sean McCoy, Peter Turner, Katharine Mach
Climate | Research Brief | Apr 22, 2018
Research Brief: Importance of Global Supply Chains for Meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Tannis Thorlakson, Eric Lambin, Joann de Zegher
Food Security | Sustainability | Research Brief | Mar 14, 2018
Hydraulic Fracturing Near Domestic Wells
Scott Jasechko, Debra Perrone
Freshwater | Research Brief | Nov 26, 2017
Californias New Landscape for Groundwater Governance
Esther Conrad, Beatrice Gordon, Tara Moran, William Blomquist, Janet Martinez
Freshwater | Research Brief | Oct 18, 2017
Groundwater Wells in the Western United States
Debra Perrone, Scott Jasechko
Freshwater | Research Brief | Sep 27, 2017
Out of sight but not out of mind The growing role of water conservation in California
Patricia Gonzales, Newsha Ajami
Freshwater | Research Brief | Sep 14, 2017
Green Infrastructure Benefits: Location is Key
Mary Ruckelshaus, Katie Arkema, Anne Guerry
Climate | Natural Capital | Oceans | Research Brief | Sep 4, 2017
Assessment to Inform Decisions on Climate, Energy, and Environment
Katharine Mach, Christopher Field
Climate | Research Brief | Aug 30, 2017
Forests Contribute to Californias Climate Change Goals
Christa Anderson, Christopher Field, Katharine Mach
Climate | Natural Capital | Research Brief | Aug 15, 2017
Global Warmings Influence on Extreme Weather Events
Noah Diffenbaugh, Deepti Singh, Justin Mankin, Daniel Horton, Daniel Swain
Climate | Research Brief | Aug 14, 2017
Data Science for Food Security
David Lobell, Marshall Burke
Food Security | Research Brief | Aug 8, 2017
Brief: Managed Retreat in a Changing Climate
Miyuki Hino, Katharine Mach, Christopher Field
Climate | Research Brief | May 17, 2017
Subsurface Conservation Easements - A New Approach for Limiting Fracking and Mining
Robert Jackson, Jessica Owley, James Salzman
Natural Capital | Research Brief | Feb 14, 2017
Brief: Adaptation in the Climate Response Portfolio
Katharine Mach
Climate | Research Brief | Jan 26, 2017
Brief: A New Approach to Wind Energy
John Dabiri
Other | Research Brief | Jan 4, 2017
Brief: Value of Solar for the United States
Michael McGehee
Other | Research Brief | Jan 4, 2017
Comparing Local Groundwater Withdrawal Permitting Laws in the Southwest and California
Rebecca Nelson, Debra Perrone
Freshwater | Research Brief | Dec 1, 2016
An Increase in Extreme-Weather Winters for the United States
Deepti Singh, Noah Diffenbaugh, Leif Thomas, Bala Rajaratnam, Justin S Mankin, Daniel E. Horton, Daniel Swain
Climate | Research Brief | Nov 28, 2016
Brief: Energy Security and Expanding the Clean Energy Economy
Arun Majumdar
Other | Research Brief | Oct 2, 2016
Brief: New Assessment Tools for Water Vulnerability
Barton "Buzz" Thompson
Freshwater | Research Brief | Oct 2, 2016
Brief: Aquaculture and Global Food Security
Rosamond Naylor
Food Security | Research Brief | Oct 2, 2016
Brief: Using Satellite Data to Monitor Groundwater Levels
Rosemary Knight
Freshwater | Research Brief | Sep 26, 2016
Brief: Canned Food Linked to Higher Exposure to the Chemical BPA in a First-of-its-Kind Nationally Representative Sample
Jennifer Hartle
Public Health | Research Brief | Sep 6, 2016
Brief: Benefits and Economic Costs of Managed Aquifer Recharge in California
Debra Perrone, Melissa M. Rohde
Freshwater | Research Brief | Jul 20, 2016
Brief: Fulfilling the Promise of California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act
Tara Moran
Freshwater | Research Brief | Jun 28, 2016
Brief: China's First National Ecosystem Assessment
Gretchen Daily
Natural Capital | Research Brief | Jun 19, 2016
Brief: Expanding Californias Water Resources with Deep Groundwater
Robert Jackson, Mary Kang
Freshwater | Research Brief | Jun 15, 2016
Brief: Renewing Investment in Our Water System
Newsha Ajami, Kim Quesnel, Barton "Buzz" Thompson
Freshwater | Research Brief | Mar 19, 2016
Brief: Overcoming Fragmentation in the Water Sector to Promote Water Innovation
Newsha Ajami, Barton "Buzz" Thompson
Freshwater | Research Brief | Mar 19, 2016
Brief: The Path to Water Innovation
Newsha Ajami, Barton "Buzz" Thompson
Freshwater | Research Brief | Mar 17, 2016
Brief: Executive Summary: Ecosystems of California
Harold Mooney, Erika Zavaleta
Natural Capital | Freshwater | Oceans | Conservation | Research Brief | Feb 11, 2016
Brief: Debunking the Climate Hiatus
Bala Rajaratnam, Joseph Romano, Michael Tsiang, Noah Diffenbaugh
Climate | Research Brief | Nov 19, 2015
Brief: The Global Economic Impacts of Climate Change
Marshall Burke
Climate | Research Brief | Nov 19, 2015
Brief: Better Sanitation without Subsidies: New Research Shows Childhood Stunting Diminishes With Community-Led Promotion of Latrines
Amy Pickering, Maria Laura Alzua, Carolina Lopez, Habiba Djebbari, Massa Coulibaly, Nicolas Osbert
Freshwater | Public Health | Research Brief | Oct 28, 2015
Brief: Addressing Sanitation Services in Dense Urban Slums: A Container-Based Model
Sebastien Tilmans, Kory Russel
Freshwater | Public Health | Research Brief | Oct 22, 2015
Brief: Depth Matters: Fracking and Drinking Water Contamination
Robert Jackson
Freshwater | Research Brief | Jul 23, 2015
Brief: Climate Change Impact on Agriculture: Implications for Food Security and Hunger
David Lobell
Climate | Food Security | Sustainability | Research Brief | Jul 8, 2015
Brief: Water Security and Development: Assessing Groundwater Management Strategies
Steven Gorelick
Freshwater | Sustainability | Research Brief | Jul 8, 2015
Brief: Incorporating Natural Capital into Decision-Making
Anne Guerry, Steve Polasky, Jane Lubchenco, et al.
Natural Capital | Conservation | Research Brief | Jun 21, 2015
Brief: California Drought and Climate Change Linked but Rain Isnt the Only Factor
Noah Diffenbaugh, Daniel Swain, Danielle Touma
Climate | Freshwater | Research Brief | Mar 2, 2015
Brief: Storing Water in California: What Can $2.7 Billion Buy Us?
Debra Perrone, Melissa Rohde
Freshwater | Research Brief | Sep 30, 2014
Brief: Atmospheric Conditions Associated with the 2013-14 California Drought Are Very Likely Linked to Human-caused Climate Change
Noah Diffenbaugh, Daniel Swain
Climate | Research Brief | Sep 25, 2014
Brief: Public Preferences Regarding Preparing for the Possible Effects of Climate Change
Jon Krosnick, Bo MacInnis
Climate | Other | Research Brief | Oct 15, 2013
Brief: Integrated Regional Management: Solving the Groundwater Challenge
Barton "Buzz" Thompson, Rebecca Nelson
Natural Capital | Freshwater | Sustainability | Research Brief | Sep 30, 2010
Brief: Wastewater as a Valuable Resource
Craig Criddle, Christopher Francis, Frank Wolak, Yi Cui, Brian Cantwell
Natural Capital | Freshwater | Sustainability | Conservation | Research Brief | Apr 30, 2010
Brief: Water, Health and Development: Challenges and Solutions in the Non-networked World
Jennifer Davis, Alexandria Boehm
Natural Capital | Freshwater | Sustainability | Research Brief | Apr 30, 2010
Brief: Developing Strategies to Promote the Viability of Long-term Freshwater Supplies for People and Ecosystems
Steven Gorelick
Natural Capital | Freshwater | Sustainability | Conservation | Research Brief | Apr 30, 2010
Brief: Rivers, Sediments and Dams
David Freyberg
Natural Capital | Freshwater | Sustainability | Conservation | Research Brief | Apr 30, 2010