Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.
Faculty Publications
Geels, Frank W., Florian Kern, and William C. Clark. "Sustainability Transitions in Consumption-Production Systems." PNAS 120.47 (November 21, 2023): e2310070120.
Galeazzi, Clara, Grace Lam, and John P. Holdren. "Carbon capture, utilization, and storage: CO2 Transport costs and network infrastructure considerations for a net-zero United States." Environment and Natural Resources Program & Science Technology and Public Policy Program Paper Series, July 2023.
Aldy, Joseph. "Learning How to Build Back Better through Clean Energy Policy Evaluation." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-010, August 2022.
Moch, Jonathan M., William Xue, and John P. Holdren. "Carbon capture, utilization, and storage: Technologies and costs in the U.S. context." Environment and Natural Resources Program Brief Series, January 2022.
Holdren, John P. "Settled enough: Climate science, skepticism, and prudence." The Hill, May 24, 2021.
Natali, Susan, John P. Holdren, Brendan M. Rogers, Rachael Treharne, Philip B. Duffy, Rafe Pomerance, and Erin MacDonald. "Permafrost carbon feedbacks threaten global climate goals." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118.21 (May 2021): e2100163118.
Lee, Henry, and Abigail Mayer. "The Future of Carbon Offset Markets." Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, October 22, 2020.
Bilmes, Linda J., and John B. Loomis. Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs: America's Best Investment, 1st edition. Routledge, 2020.
Chen, Cuicui, and Henry Lee. "The Value of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration." Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, March 4, 2020.
Sikkink, Kathryn. The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibilities. Yale University Press, 2020.
Qiao, Qinyu, and Henry Lee. "The Role of Electric Vehicles in Decarbonizing China’s Transportation Sector." Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, April 2019.
Qiao, Qinyu, Wei Peng, Pu Wang, and Henry Lee. "Harvard-Tsinghua Workshop on Low-Carbon Development and Public Policy." September 2018.
Horton, Joshua B., Jesse L. Reynolds, Holly Jean Buck, Daniel Callies, Stefan Schäfer, David W. Keith, and Steve Rayner. "Solar Geoengineering and Democracy." Global Environmental Politics 18.3 (August 2018): 5-24.
Dai, Zhen, Debra K. Weisenstein, and David W. Keith. "Tailoring Meridional and Seasonal Radiative Forcing by Sulfate Aerosol Solar Geoengineering." Geophysical Research Letters (January 2018).
Diaz Anadon, Laura, Kelly Sims Gallagher, and John P. Holdren. "Rescue US Energy Innovation." Nature Energy (September 2017).
Mehling, Michael A.; Metcalf, Gilbert E.; and Stavins, Robert N. "Linking Heterogeneous Climate Policies (Consistent with the Paris Agreement)." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-042, September 2017.
Keith, David. "Toward a Responsible Solar Geoengineering Research Program." Issues in Science & Technology 33.3 (Spring 2017): 71-77.
Burns, Elizabeth T, Jane A Flegal, David W Keith, Aseem Mahajan, Dustin Tingley, and Gernot Wagner. "What Do People Think When They Think About Solar Geoengineering? A Review of Empirical Social Science Literature, and Prospects for Future Research." Earth's Future 4.11 (November 2016): 536-542.
Anadon, Laura Diaz, Gabriel Chan, Amitai Y. Bin-Nun, and Venkatesh Narayanamurti. "The Pressing Energy Innovation Challenge of the U.S. National Laboratories." Nature Energy 1 (September 2016).
Diaz Anadon, Laura, Gabriel Chan, Alicia G. Harley, Kira Matus, Suerie Moon, Sharmila L. Murthy, and William C. Clark. "Making Technological Innovation Work for Sustainable Development." PNAS 113.35 (August 2016): 9682-9690.
Dykema, J.A., David Keith, and F.N. Keutsch. "Improved Aerosol Radiative Properties as a Foundation for Solar Geoengineering Risk Assessment." Geophysical Research Letters 43.14 (July 2016): 7758-7766.
Keith, David, Gernot Wagner, and Juan Moreno-Cruz. "Modeling the Effects of Climate Engineering." Science 352.6293 (June 2016): 1526-1527.
Bunn, Matthew, and Venkatesh Narayanamurti. Review of Transforming US Energy Innovation, ed. Anadon, Laura Diaz. 2016: 2.
Clark, William C., Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Louis Lebel, and Gilberto C. Gallopin. "Crafting Usable Knowledge for Sustainable Development." PNAS 113.17 (April 26, 2016): 4570–4578.
Clark, William C., Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Louis Lebel, and Gilberto Gallopin. "Crafting Usable Knowledge for Sustainable Development." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-005, January 2016.
Anadon, Laura Diaz, Gabriel Chan, Alicia Harley, Kira Matus, Suerie Moon, Sharmila L. Murthy, and William C. Clark. "Making Technological Innovation Work for Sustainable Development." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-079, December 2015.
Harley, Alicia, N. Michele Holbrook, and William C. Clark. "Innovation for Vulnerable Farmers: Drought and Water Scarcity Adaptation Technologies." Sustainability Science Program, Harvard University, December 2015.
Freeman, Mark C., Ben Groom, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Better Predictions, Better Allocations: Scientific Advances and Adaptation to Climate Change." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences 373.2055 (October 2015).
Dykema, John A., David W. Keith, James G. Anderson, and Debra Weisenstein. "Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment: A Small-Scale Experiment to Improve Understanding of the Risks of Solar Geoengineering." Philosophical Transactions A 372.2301 (December 2014).
MacMartin, Douglas G., Ken Caldeira, and David W. Keith. "Solar Geoengineering to Limit the Rate of Temperature Change." Philosophical Transactions A 372.2301 (December 2014).
Keith, David, Riley Duren, and Douglas G. MacMartin. "Field Experiments on Solar Geoengineering: Report of a Workshop Exploring a Representative Research Portfolio." Philosophical Transactions A 372 (November 17, 2014).
Diaz Anadon, Laura, Valentina Bosetti, Gabriel Chan, Gregory Nemet, and Elena Verdolini. "Energy Technology Expert Elicitations for Policy: Workshops, Modeling, and Meta-Analysis." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-054, November 2014.
Keith, David W. "Not A Superpower." Policy Opinions. September 2014.
Howell, Sabrina, Henry Lee, and Adam Heal. "Leapfrogging or Stalling Out? Electric Vehicles in China." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-035, May 2014.
MacMartin, Douglas, Ben Kravitz, David Keith, and Andrew Jarvis. "Dynamics of the Coupled Human-Climate System Resulting from Closed-Loop Control of Solar Geoengineering." Climate Dynamics 43.1/2 (July 2014): 243-258.
Kravitz, Ben, Douglas G. MacMartin, Alan Robock, Philip J. Rasch, Katharine L. Ricke, Jason N. S. Cole, Charles L. Curry, Peter J. Irvine, Duoying Ji, David W. Keith, Jón Egill Kristjánsson, John C. Moore, Helene Muri, Balwinder Singh, Simone Tilmes, Shingo Watanabe, Shuting Yang, and Jin-Ho Yoon. "A Multi-model Assessment of Regional Climate Disparities Caused by Solar Geoengineering." Environmental Research Letters 9.7 (July 2014).
Juma, Calestous. "Societal Benefits of Agricultural Biotechnology: Global Status and Outlook." Subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture of the Committee on Agriculture, U.S. House of Representatives, July 9, 2014.
Diaz Anadon, Laura, Matthew Bunn, and Venkatesh Narayanamurti, eds. Transforming U.S. Energy Innovation. Cambridge University Press, July 2014.
MacMartin, D. G., B. Kravitz, and David W. Keith. "Geoengineering: The World's Largest Control Problem." American Control Conference (ACC), 2014. IEEE, June 2014, 2401 - 2406.
Harley, Alicia, Sharmila Murthy, Laura Diaz Anadon, Gabriel Chan, Kira Matus, Suerie Moon, Vanessa Timmer, and William C. Clark. "Innovation and Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development: A Global Systems Perspective." Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, April 24, 2014.
Juma, Calestous. "Transgenic Crops, Food Security, and Development: Status Review and New Policy Directions for Kenya." Taskforce on Review of Matters Relating to Genetically Modified Foods and Food Security, Ministry of, April 22, 2014.
Juma, Calestous, and David Spielman. "Farmers as Entrepreneurs: Sources of Agricultural Innovation in Africa." New Directions for Smallholder Agriculture. Ed. Peter B. R. Hazell and Atiqur Rahman. Oxford University Press, March 2014.
Siddiqi, Afreen, Farah Ereiqat, and Laura Diaz Anadon. "Assessing Future Water Availability in Arid Regions Using Composition and Salience of Decision Criteria." Working Paper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, March 2014.
Safaei, Hossein, and David Keith. "Compressed Air Energy Storage with Waste Heat Export: An Alberta Case Study." Energy Conversion and Management 78 (February 2014): 114-124.
Choia, Hyundo, and Laura Díaz Anadón. "The Role of the Complementary Sector and Its Relationship with Network Formation and Government Policies in Emerging Sectors: The Case of Solar Photovoltaics between 2001 and 2009." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 82 (February 2014): 80-94.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "Weathering the Climate Crisis." Current History 113.759 (January 2014): 12-15.
Juma, Calestous, and Katherine Gordon. "Transgenic Crops and Food Security." Plant Biotechnology: Experience and Future Prospects. Ed. Ricroch, A., Surinder Chopra and Shelby Fleischer. Springer, 2014.
Juma, Calestous, and Pedro Conceição, and Sebastian Levine. "Biotechnology and Food Security." Handbook on Agriculture, Biotechnology and Development. Ed. Stuart J. Smyth, Peter W.B. Phillips and David Castle. Edward Elgar, 2014.
Diaz Anadon, Laura. "Energy from Fossil Fuels: Challenges and Opportunities for Technology Innovation." Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2013 Symposium. Ed. U.S. National Academy of Engineering. National Academies Press, 2014.
Diaz Anadon, and Laura, G. Nemet. "The US Synthetic Fuels Corporation: Policy Consistency, Flexibility and the Long-term Consequences of Perceived Failures." Energy Technology Innovation: Learning from Historical Successes and Failures. Ed. Arnulf Grübler and Charlie Wilson. Cambridge University Press, 2013.