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Global Environmental Politics: The Transformative Role of Emerging Economies
Johannes Urpelainen
Foundations for a Low-Carbon Energy System in China
Henry Lee, Daniel Schrag, Matthew Bunn, Michael Davidson, Wei Peng, Pu Wang, and Zhimin Mao
Collaborative Advantage: Forging Green Industries in the New Global Economy
Jonas Nahm
Escaping the Energy Poverty Trap: When and How Governments Power the Lives of the Poor
Michaël Aklin, Patrick Bayer, S.P. Harish, Johannes Urpelainen
Renewables: The Politics of a Global Energy Transition
Michael Aklin, Johannes Urpelainen
Green bargains: leveraging public investment to advance climate regulation
Jonas Meckling, Jesse Strecker
Socio-demographic factors shaping the future global health burden from air pollution
Hui Yang, Xinyuan Huang, Daniel M. Westervelt, Larry Horowitz & Wei Peng
Impact of renewable electricity on utility finances: Assessing merit order effect for an Indian utility
Sourabh Jain & Gireesh Shrimali
Evidence of multidimensional gender inequality in energy services from a large-scale household survey in India
Alice Tianbo Zhang, Sasmita Patnaik, Shaily Jha, Shalu Agrawal, Carlos F. Gould, & Johannes Urpelainen
Jobs for a just transition: Evidence on coal job preferences from India
Brian Blankenship, Michaël Aklin, Johannes Urpelainen & Vagisha Nandan
Cost–benefit analysis of coal plant repurposing in developing countries: A case study of India
Abhinav Jindal, Gireesh Shrimali
G20’s US$14-trillion economic stimulus reneges on emissions pledges
Jonas Nahm, Scot M. Miller & Johannes Urpelainen
Identifying coal plants for early retirement in India: A multidimensional analysis of technical, economic, and environmental factors
Nada Maamoun, Puneet Chitkara, Joonseok Yang, Gireesh Shrimali, Joshua Busbye, Sarang Shidore, Yana Jin & Johannes Urpelainen
Accelerating a clean energy transition in Southeast Asia: Role of governments and public policy
Joao Aleluia, Pradeep Tharakan, Ananth Chikkatur, Gireesh Shrimali, Xi Chen
Sustainable commodity governance and the global south
Hamish van der Ven, Yixian Sun, Benjamin Cashore
Varieties of crises: comparing the politics of COVID-19 and climate change
Hamish van der Ven, Yixian Sun
The role and limits of strategic framing for promoting sustainable consumption and policy
Lukas P Fesenfeld, Yixian Sun, Michael Wicki, Thomas Bernauer
The Paradox of Mini-Grids: A Conflict between Business Viability and Customer Affordability
Venkata Srikanth Bandi, Tiia Sahrakorpi, Jukka Paatero, Risto Lahdelma
Empowerment or employment? Uncovering the paradoxes of social entrepreneurship for women via Husk Power Systems in rural North India
Tiia Sahrakorpi, Venkata Bandi
Transition, hedge, or resist? Understanding political and economic behavior toward decarbonization in the oil and gas industry
Jessica Green, Jennifer Hadden, Thomas Hale, Paasha Mahdavi
Examining the willingness-to-pay for exclusive use of LPG for cooking among rural households in India
Namrata Chindarkar, Abhishek Jain, Sunil Mani
Cascading risks: Understanding the 2021 winter blackout in Texas
Joshua W Busby, Kyri Baker, Morgan D Bazilian, Alex Q Gilbert, Emily Grubert, Varun Rai, Joshua D Rhodes, Sarang Shidore, Caitlin A Smith, Michael E Webber
Spatial Energy Efficiency Patterns in New York and Implications for Energy Demand and the Rebound Effect
Joseph Nyangon, John Byrne
Asset revaluation and the existential politics of climate change
Jeff D Colgan, Jessica F Green, Thomas N Hale
Playing Politics With Environmental Protection: The Political Economy Of Designating Protected Areas
Jorge Mangonnet, Jacob Kopas, Johannes Urpelainen
Is energy the golden thread? A systematic review of the impacts of modern and traditional energy use in low- and middle-income countries
Marc Jeuland, T Robert Fetter, Yating Li, Subhrendu K Pattanayak, Faraz Usmani, Randall A Bluffstone, Carlos Chávez, Hannah Girardeau, Sied Hassen, Pamela Jagger, Mónica M Jaime, Mary Karumba, Gunnar Köhlin, Luciane Lenz, Erin L Litzow, Lauren Masatsugu, Maria Angelica Naranjo, Jörg Peters, Ping Qin, Remidius D Ruhinduka, Montserrat Serrano-Medrano, Maximiliane Sievert, Erin O Sills, Michael Toman
Green product innovation in industrial networks: A theoretical model
Eugenie Dugoua, Marion Dumas
Determinants of environmental conflict: When do communities mobilize against fossil fuel production?
Andrew Cheon, Shi-Teng Kang, Swetha Ramachandran
Opportunities for household energy on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in line with United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
Minghao Zhuang, Xi Lu, Wei Peng, Yanfen Wang, Jianxiao Wang, Chris P. Nielsen, Michael B. McElroy
Emissions and Health Implications of Pennsylvania’s Entry into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Hui Yang, An Thu Pham, Joel Reid Landry, Seth Adam Blumsack, Wei Peng
Climate action with revenue recycling has benefits for poverty, inequality and well-being
M. Budolfson, F. Dennig, F. Errickson, S. Feindt, M. Fleurbaey, D. Klener, U. Kornek, K. Kuruc, A. Mejean, W. Peng, N. Scovronick, D. Spears, F. Wagner, S Zuber
The importance of health co-benefits under different climate policy cooperation frameworks
Noah Scovronick, David Anthoff, Francis Dennig, Frank Errickson, Maddalena Ferranna, Wei Peng, Dean Spears, Fabian Wagner, Mark Budolfson
US–China Collaboration is Vital to Global Plans for a Healthy Environment and Sustainable Development
Ming Xu, Glen T Daigger, Chuanwu Xi, Jianguo Liu, Jiuhui Qu, Pedro J Alvarez, Pratim Biswas, Yongsheng Chen, Dana Dolinoy, Ying Fan, Huaizhu Oliver Gao, Jiming Hao, Hong He, Daniel M Kammen, Maria Carmen Lemos, Fudong Liu, Nancy G Love, Yonglong Lu, Denise L Mauzerall, Shelie A Miller, Zhiyun Ouyang, Jonathan T Overpeck, Wei Peng, Anu Ramaswami, Zhiyong Ren, Aijie Wang, Brian Wu, Ye Wu, Junfeng Zhang, Chunmiao Zheng, Bing Zhu, Tong Zhu, Wei-Qiang Chen, Gang Liu, Shen Qu, Chunyan Wang, Yutao Wang, Xueying Yu, Chao Zhang, Hongliang Zhang
Clean air actions in China, PM2.5 exposure, and household medical expenditures: A quasi-experimental study
Tao Xue, Tong Zhu, Peng Wei, Tianjia Guan, Shiqiu Zhang, Yixuan Zheng, Guannan Geng, Qiang Zhang
The evolving role of solar-based lighting solutions in rural India: Global lessons for distributed renewables
Michaël Aklin, Johannes Urpelainen
Electrification and productive use among micro- and small-enterprises in rural North India
Setu Pelz, Michaël Aklin, Johannes Urpelainen
The hedonic treadmill: Electricity access in India has increased, but so have expectations
Michaël Aklin, Namrata Chindarkar, Johannes Urpelainen, Abhishek Jain, Karthik Ganesan
The Enemy Within? Green Industrial Policy and Stranded Assets in China’s Power Sector
Jonas Nahm, Johannes Urpelainen
To achieve deep cuts in US emissions, state-driven policy is only slightly more expensive than nationally uniform policy
Wei Peng , Gokul Iyer, Matthew Binsted, Jennifer Marlon, Leon Clarke, James A. Edmonds , David G. Victor
Elite vs. mass politics of sustainability transitions
Nicolas Schmid, Christopher Beaton, Florian Kern, Neil McCulloch, Anish Sugathan, Johannes Urpelainen
The surprisingly inexpensive cost of state-driven emission control strategies
Wei Peng, Gokul Iyer, Matthew Binsted, Jennifer Marlon, Leon Clarke, James A. Edmonds, David G. Victor
Incorporating political-feasibility concerns into the assessment of India’s clean-air policies
Wei Peng, Sung Eun Kim, Pallav Purohit, Johannes Urpelainen, Fabian Wagner
Strategic State Capacity: How States Counter Opposition to Climate Policy
Jonas Meckling, Jonas Nahm
Satellite-based deforestation alerts with training and incentives for patrolling facilitate community monitoring in the Peruvian Amazon
Tara Slough, Jacob Kopas, and Johannes Urpelainen
Adoption of community monitoring improves common pool resource management across contexts
Tara Slough, Daniel Rubenson, Ro’ee Levy, Francisco Alpizar Rodriguez, María Bernedo del Carpio, Mark T. Buntaine, Darin Christensen, Alicia Cooperman, Sabrina Eisenbarth, Paul J. Ferraro, Louis Graham, Alexandra C. Hartman, Jacob Kopas, Sasha McLarty, Anouk S. Rigterink, Cyrus Samii, Brigitte Seim, Johannes Urpelainen, and Bing Zhang
Improved Household Living Standards Can Restore Dry Tropical Forests
Ruth DeFries, Meghna Agarwala, Sandra Baquie, Pooja Choksi, Sarika Khanwilkar, Pinki Mondal, Harini Nagendra, and Johannes Urpelainen
Sensitivity of seasonal migration to climatic variability in central India
Pooja Choksi, Deepti Singh, Jitendra Singh, Pinki Mondal, Harini Nagendra, Johannes Urpelainen, Ruth DeFries
Climate policy models need to get real about people — here’s how
Wei Peng, Gokul Iyer, Valentina Bosetti, Vaibhav Chaturvedi, James Edmonds, Allen A. Fawcett, Stéphane Hallegatte, David G. Victor, Detlef van Vuuren and John Weyant
The Great Equalizer: Inequality in Tribal Energy Access and Policies to Address It
Michaël Aklin, Brian Blankenship, Vagisha Nandan, Johannes Urpelainen
Lessons for renewable integration in developing countries: The importance of cost recovery and distributional justice
Kaveri K. Iychettira
State Policy and Lobbying in a Federal System: Evidence from the Production Tax Credit for Renewable Energy, 1998–2012
Sung Eun Kim, Johannes Urpelainen, Joonseok Yang
Thermoelectric Power Generation and Water Stress in India: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis
Chao Zhang, Joonseok Yang, Johannes Urpelainen, Puneet Chitkara, Jiayi Zhang, and Jiao Wang
Greasing the Wheels: The Politics of Environmental Clearances in India
Jacob Kopas, Johannes Urpelainen, Erin York
Perceptions and acceptability of electricity theft: Towards better public service provision
Jason Chun Yu Wong, Brian Blankenship, Johannes Urpelainen, Karthik Ganesan, Kapardhi Bharadwaj, KanikaBalani
Migration, assets, and forest degradation in a tropical deciduous forest of South Asia
Sandra Baquié, Johannes Urpelainen, Sarika Khanwilkar, Christopher S. Galletti, Nandini Velho, Pinki Mondal, Harini Nagendra, Ruth DeFries
Energy Access for Marginalized Communities: Evidence from Rural North India, 2015-2018
Setu Pelz, Namrata Chindarkar, Johannes Urpelainen
Influence of improved supply on household electricity consumption – Evidence from rural India
Shalu Agrawal, Harish S.P., Aseem Mahajan, Daniel Robert Thomas, Johannes Urpelainen
An ultra-low emission coal power fleet for cleaner but not hotter air
Yana Jin, Wei Peng, Johannes Urpelainen
Vested Interests: Examining the Political Obstacles to Power Sector Reform in Twenty Indian States
Chao-Yo Cheng, YuJung Julia Lee, Yuree Noh, Galen Murray, Johannes Urpelainen, Joseph Van Horn
Enabling a Rapid and Just Transition away from Coal in China
Gang He, Jiang Lin, Ying Zhang, Wenhua Zhang, Guilherme Larangeira, Chao Zhang, Wei Peng, Manzhi Liu, Fuqiang Yang
Jointly modeling the adoption and use of clean cooking fuels in rural India
Carlos F Gould, Xiaoxue Hou, Jennifer Richmond, Anjali Sharma, Johannes Urpelainen
Measuring and explaining household access to electrical energy services: Evidence from rural northern India
Setu Pelz, Johannes Urpelainen
Cross-State Air Pollution Transport Calls for More Centralization in India’s Environmental Federalism
Xinming Du, Hao Guo, Hongliang Zhang, Wei Peng, Johannes Urpelainen
Asset Revaluation and the Existential Politics of Climate Change
Jeff Colgan, Jessica F. Green, Thomas Hale
The Effects of Rural Electrification in India: An Instrumental Variable Approach at the Household Level
Daniel Robert Thomas, Harish S.P., Ryan Kennedy, Johannes Urpelainen
Drivers of household appliance usage: evidence from rural India
Jennifer L Richmond, Shalu Agrawal, Johannes Urpelainen
Authoritarian Energy Transitions Undermined? Environmental Governance Cycles in China’s Power Sector
Meir Alkon, Audrye Wong
Environmental Justice in India: Incidence of Air Pollution from Coal-Fired Power Plants
Jacob Kopas, Erin York, Xiaomeng Jin, Harish S.P., Ryan Kennedy, Shiran Victoria Shen, Johannes Urpelainen
Lock-in for lighting: The puzzle of continued kerosene use among electrified households in six Indian states
Xiaoxue Hou, Johannes Urpelainen
The Behavioral Impact of Basic Energy Access: a Randomized Controlled Trial with Solar Lanterns in Rural India
Aseem Mahajan, Harish S.P., and Johannes Urpelainen
The European Union Emissions Trading System reduced CO2 emissions despite low prices
Patrick Bayer, Michaël Aklin
Identifying Coal-Fired Power Plants for Early Retirement
Nada Maamoun, Ryan Kennedy, Xiaomeng Jin, Johannes Urpelainen
Inequality in Policy Implementation: Caste and Electrification in Rural India
Michaël Aklin, Chao-Yo Cheng, Johannes Urpelainen
Understanding Segmentation in Rural Electricity Markets: Evidence from India
Daniel Robert Thomas, Shalu Agrawal, Johannes Urpelainen, Harish S.P., Aseem Mahajan
The Adoption and Use of Solar Mini-Grids in Grid-Electrified Indian Villages
Anjali Sharma, Shalu Agrawal, Johannes Urpelainen
The Future of Coal-Fired Power Generation in Southeast Asia
Richard Clark, Noah Zucker, Johannes Urpelainen
The Role of Education and Attitudes in Cooking Fuel Choice: Evidence from two states in India
Carlos Gould, Johannes Urpelainen
Environmental Degradation and Public Opinion: The Case of Air Pollution in Vietnam
Sung Eun Kim, Harish S.P., Ryan Kennedy, Xiaomeng Jin, Johannes Urpelainen
The Need for Impact Evaluation in Electricity Access Research
Patrick Bayer, Ryan Kennedy, Joonseok Yang, Johannes Urpelainen
Household fuel mixes in peri-urban and rural Ecuador: Explaining the context of LPG, patterns of continued firewood use, and the challenges of induction cooking
Carlos F. Gould, Samuel B. Schlesinger, Emilio Molina, M. Lorena Bejarano, Alfredo Valarezo, Darby W.Jack
Elections and Policy Responsiveness: Evidence from Environmental Voting in the U.S. Congress
Richard McAlexander, Johannes Urpelainen
Early Electrification and the Quality of Service: Evidence from Rural India
Daniel Robert Thomas, Johannes Urpelainen
Economics of Household Technology Adoption in Developing Countries: Evidence from Solar Technology Adoption in Rural India
Michael Aklin, Patrick Bayer, S.P. Harish, Johannes Urpelainen
Trust in Government and Subsidy Reforms: Evidence from a Survey of Indian Farmers
Meir Alkon, Johannes Urpelainen
Distributed Power Generation in National Rural Electrification Plans: An International and Comparative Evaluation
Siyuan Ma, Johannes Urpelainen
An Evaluation of Dynamic Electricity Pricing for Solar Micro-Grids in Rural India
Sini Numminen, Semee Yoon, Peter Lund, Johannes Urpelainen
Vouchers Can Create a Thriving Market for Distributed Power Generation in Developing Countries
Johannes Urpelainen
A Global Analysis of Progress in Household Electrification
Michael Aklin, Harish S.P, Johannes Urpelainen
LPG as a Clean Cooking Fuel: Adoption, Use, and Impact in Rural India
Carlos Gould, Johannes Urpelainen
Sustainable Deployment of Solar Irrigation Pumps: Key Determinants and Strategies
Shalu Agrawal, Abhishek Jain
Lessons from the World’s Largest Subsidy Benefit Transfer Scheme
Abhishek Jain, Shalu Agrawal, Karthik Ganesan
Public Policy Strategies for Next-generation Vehicle Technologies: An Overview of Leading Markets
Annika Bose Styczynski, Llewelyn Hughes
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Developing Countries’ Unity at the Nexus of Trade and Environmental Policy
Tana Johnson, Johannes Urpelainen
Stranded Wealth: Rethinking the Politics of Oil in an Age of Abundance
Thijs Van de Graaf, Michael Bradshaw
Political Institutions and Pollution: Evidence from Coal-Fired Power Generation
Richard Clark, Noah Zucker, Johannes Urpelainen
The Future of India’s Coal-Fired Power Generation Capacity
Joonseok Yang, Johannes Urpelainen
Gasification of coal and biomass as a net carbon-negative power source for environment-friendly electricity generation in China
Lu, Xi, Liang Cao, Haikun Wang, Wei Peng, Jia Xing, Shuxiao Wang, Siyi Cai, Bo Shen, Qing Yang, Chris P. Nielson, and Michael B. McElroy
Mid-Century Strategies: Pathways to a Low-Carbon Future?
Narayan Gopinathan, Narayan Subramanian, Johannes Urpelainen
The Impact of Human Health Co-benefits on Evaluations of Global Climate Policy
Noah Scovronick, Mark Budolfson, Francis Dennig, Frank Errickson, Marc Fleurbaey, Wei Peng, Robert H. Socolow, Dean Spears & Fabian Wagner
Environmental Effects of GATT/WTO Membership: An Empirical Evaluation
Sung Eun Kim, Johannes Urpelainen, Joonseok Yang
Shades of Darkness or Light? A Systematic Review of Geographic Bias in Impact Evaluations of Electricity Access
David Hamburger, Joel Jaeger, Patrick Bayer, Ryan Kennedy, Joonseok Yang, Johannes Urpelainen
Is Coal-Fired Power Generation Associated with Rural Electrification? A Global Analysis
Joonseok Yang, Johannes Urpelainen
The Gendered Nature of Liquefied Petroleum Adoption and Use in Rural India
Carlos Gould, Johannes Urpelainen
Multilevel Customer Segmentation for Off-Grid Solar in Developing Countries: Evidence from Solar Home Systems in Rwanda and Kenya
Ryan Kennedy, Sini Numminen, Joseph Sutherland, Johannes Urpelainen
Water Security Implications of Coal-Fired Power Plants Financed Through China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Meir Alkon, Xiaogang He, Aubrey Paris, Wenying Liao, Thomas Hodson, Niko Wanders, Yaoping Wang
Electrification and Appliance Ownership Over Time: Evidence from Rural India
Jennifer L Richmond, Johannes Urpelainen
The Politics of Technology Bans: Industrial Policy Competition and Green Goals for the Auto Industry
Jonas Meckling, Jonas Nahm
Quality of Service Predicts Willingness to Pay for Household Electricity Connections in Rural India
Ryan Kennedy, Aseem Mahajan, Johannes Urpelainen
Explaining Willingness to Pay for Pricing Reforms that Improve Electricity Service in India
Brian Blankenship, Jason Chun Yu Wong, Johannes Urpelainen
Evaluation of the Reliability of Solar Micro-Grids in Emerging Markets – Issues and Solutions
Sini Numminen, Peter Lund
Satellite Data for the Social Sciences: Measuring Rural Electrification with Nighttime Lights
Eugenie Dugoua, Ryan Kennedy, Johannes Urpelainen
Rise to the Occasion? A Critique of the World Bank’s Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy
Johannes Urpelainen
United States Non-Cooperation and the Paris Agreement
Johannes Urpelainen, Thijs Van de Graaf
How Do Sectoral Interests Shape Distributive Politics? Evidence from Gasoline and Diesel Subsidy Reforms
Brian Blankenship, Johannes Urpelainen
Geography, Community, Household: Adoption of Distributed Solar Power Across India
Michaël Aklin, Chao-yo Cheng, Johannes Urpelainen
The US should treat climate policy as economic policy
Jonas Nahm and Johannes Urpelainen
Net-Zero Innovation Hubs: 3 Priorities to Drive America’s Clean Energy Future
Johannes Urpelainen and Chetan Hebbale
SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR CLEAN POWER IN THE BELT AND ROAD: COMPARING THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PAKISTAN AND INDONESIA
Chuyu Liu, Thomas Hale, and Johannes Urpelainen
JHARKHAND RURAL ENERGY ACCESS: ENDURING CHALLENGES IN QUALITY, AFFORDABILITY, AND BILLING
Diksha Bijlani, Michaël Aklin, Brian Blankenship, Vagisha Nandan, and Johannes Urpelainen
Implementing Solar Irrigation Sustainably
Siddharth Goel, Rashmi Murali, Anas Rahman, Prajnashish Swain, Balasubramanian Viswanathan, Shalu Agrawal, Christopher Beaton, Mini Govindan, Abhishek Jain, Debajit Palit
Preparing the United States for security and governance in a geoengineering future
Joseph Versen, Zaruhi Mnatsakanyan, and Johannes Urpelainen
CREATING A RENEWABLE ECOSYSTEM: ROADMAP FOR A CLEAN ENERGY TRANSITION IN JHARKHAND, INDIA
Aklavya Sharan, Jai Shekhar, Harshit Vallecha, Vagisha Nandan, Michaël Aklin, Brian Blankenship, and Johannes Urpelainen
BELT AND ROAD DECISION-MAKING IN CHINA AND RECIPIENT COUNTRIES: HOW AND TO WHAT EXTENT DOES SUSTAINABILITY MATTER?
Thomas Hale, Chuyu Liu, Johannes Urpelainen
ENERGY IN RURAL JHARKHAND
Michaël Aklin, Brian Blankenship, Vagisha Nandan, and Johannes Urpelainen