Energy Resources

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JOEL DARMSTADTER

Resident Consultant/Senior Fellow

Resources for the Future Phone: 202-***-****

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Washington, DC 20036-1400 Email: abqsdc@r.postjobfree.com

Education

B.A., Economics, George Washington University, 1950

M.A., Economics, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, 1952

Principal Positions

1966- Research staff, Resources for the Future (Director, Energy and Materials

Division, 1984-1988)

1983-1993 Professorial Lecturer, international economics, Johns Hopkins University

School of Advanced International Studies (part-time)

1957-1966 Economist, National Planning Association, Washington, DC

1950-1957 Trainee, foreign trade firm (1950-52); research assistant with several economic research

organizations (1952-55); active duty, U.S. Army (1955-57)

Selected Publications

Books

Unconventional Fossil-Based Fuels: Economic and Environmental Trade-Offs (with Michael Toman, et al.),

RAND Corporation, Technical Report, 2008.

Assessing Surprises and Nonlinearities in Greenhouse Warming (contributor and co-editor, with Michael

Toman) (Resources for the Future, 1993).

Global Development and the Environment: Perspectives on Sustainability (editor and contributor) (Resources

for the Future, 1992).

Greenhouse Warming: Abatement and Adaptation (contributor and editor, with Norman J. Rosenberg, William

E. Easterling III, and Pierre R. Crosson) (Resources for the Future, 1989).

Energy Today and Tomorrow: Living With Uncertainty (with H. H. Landsberg and H. C. Morton (Prentice -

Hall/Resources for the Future, 1983).

Energy in America's Future: The Choices Before Us (with Sam H. Schurr, Harry Perry, et al.) (Johns

Hopkins/Resources for the Future, 1979).

How Industrial Societies Use Energy: A Comparative Analysis (with Joy Dunkerley and Jack Alterman) (Johns

Hopkins/Resources for the Future, 1977).

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Energy in the World Economy: A Statistical Review of Trends in Output, Trade, and Consumption Since 1925

(with J. Polach and P. Teitelbaum) (Johns Hopkins/Resources for the Future, 1971).

Recent Other Publications

The Supply Chain and Industrial Organization of Rare Earth Materials: Impl ications for the U.S. Wind Energy

Sector (with Jhih-Shyang Shih et al.) RFF Report, Resources for the Future, February 2012.

Meeting the World s Natural Resource Needs: Confrontation Ahead? Resources, No. 179, Winter 2012.

(with Joshua Linn) Loan Gua rantees Reconsidered, Resources, No. 179, Winter 2012.

Review of T. H. Moran, China s Strategy to Secure Natural Resources: Risks, Dangers, and Opportunities, in

Environment, January-February, 2011.

A Resource War Resurgence? Divining Facts and Fears in China s Energy Strategy, Resources, Summer

2010.

The Prospective Role of Unconventional Fuels, Background Paper, RFF/NEPI Project on Toward a New

National Energy Policy, June 2010.

Editors Picks comment (in Environment, March/April 2010) on World Bank, World Development Report

2010: The Impacts of Climate Change.

More Sound than Fury? Decarbonization, Dematerialization, and Environmental Kuznets Curves, Weekly

Policy Commentary, April 23, 2010, Resources for the Future.

What Role for Synthetic Liquid Fuels? A Look at Canadian Oil Sands, Weekly Policy Commentary, Oct.

20, 2008, Resources for the Future.

Editors Picks comment (in Environment, November/December 2008) on Mitigating Climate Change: Who

Pays? Who Benefits? by E. A. Posner and C. R. Sunstein, Regulation, Spring 2008.

Incorporating Resource and Environmental Change in a Nation s Economic Accounts: Roles for Earth Science

Applications, Issue Brief IB 08-04, Resources for the Future, Nov. 2008.

Comment on Ethanol: Train Wreck Ahead, Issues in Science and Technology, Winter 2008.

(with Robert Weiner) Expanding Oil Supplies, Resources, Fall 2006.

Energy Independence: Fantasies, Facts, Options, Issue Brief 06 -02, Resources for the Future, Dec. 2006.

Coal Within a Revised Energy Perspective, EM Magazine (Air & Waste Management Association), July 2006.

(with Karen Palmer) Renewable Sources of Electricity: Safe Bet or Tilting at Windmills, Resources, No. 156,

Winter 2005.

Review of N. Myers and J. Kent, The New Consumers: The Influence of Affluence on the Environment (Island

Press, 2004) in Environmental Conservation, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2005.

Stimulating Renewable Energy: A Green Power Initiative and (with Ian Parry) Slaking Our Thirst for Oil,

in R. Morgenstern and P. Portney, eds., New Approaches on Energy and the Environment: Policy Advice for the

President (RFF, 2004).

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Review of Jack M. Hollander, The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, is the Environment s

Number One Enemy (University of California Press, 2003) in Population and Development Review, Vol. 29, No.

4, Dec. 2003.

The Economic and Policy Setting of Renewable Energy, RFF Discussion Paper 03 -64, Dec. 2003.

(with Ian W. H.Parry), The Costs of U.S. Oil Dependency, R FF Discussion Paper 03-59, Dec. 2003.

Hans H. Landsberg and Sam H. Schurr: Reflections and Appreciation, The Energy Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4,

2003.

Energy and Population, in P. Demeny and G. McNicoll, eds., Encyclopedia of Population (Macmillan

Reference USA, 2003).

Rio+10: A Global Energy Perspective, Issue Brief 02 -10, Resources for the Future, Washington, Aug. 2002.

Review of U. Bartsch and Benito Mueller, Fossil Fuels in a Changing Climate (Oxford University Press, 2000)

in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, May 2002.

Whistling in the Wind? Toward a Realistic Pursuit of Renewable Energy, Brookings Review, Spring 2002.

(with M. Macauley et al.) Measuring the Contribution to the Economy of Investments in Renewable Energy:

Estimates of Future Consumer Gains, Report to the U.S. Department of Energy, RFF Discussion Paper 02 -05,

Feb. 2002.

The Long-Run Availability of Minerals: Geology, Environment, Economics, Summary of an Interdisciplinary

Workshop Held in April 2001 (Released Summer 2001).

Comment on J. P. Holdren, Searching for a National Energy Policy, Issues in Science and Technology, Spring

2001 in Issues in Science and Technology, Summer 2001.

The Economy-Energy-CO2 Connection: A Review of Trends and Challenges, in Da vid Williams, et al., eds.,

Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Greenhouse Gas

Control Technologies (Collingwood, Australia, CSIRO Publishing, 2001).

The Role of Renewables in U.S. Electricity Generation: Experience and Prospects and The Energy-CO2

Connection: A Review of Trends and Challenges, in M. A. Toman, ed., Climate Change Economics and Policy:

An RFF Anthology, (Resources for the Future, 2001.

(with M. K. Macauley, J. N. Fini, et al.) Can Power from Space Compete, Discussion Paper 00 -16, Resources

for the Future, March 2000.

(with J. McVeigh, D. Burtraw, K. Palmer) Winner, Loser or Innocent Victim: Has Renewable Energy

Performed as Expected? Solar Energy, Vol. 68, No. 3, 2000; also appeared as Research Report No. 7,

Renewable Energy Project, Washington, March 1999.

Renewables From Another Angle, Electric Perspectives, Edison

Electric Institute, March-April 2000.

Innovation and Productivity in U.S. Coal Mining, in R. D. Simpson, ed., Productivity in Natural Resource

Industries: Improvement Through Innovation ( Resources for the Future, 1999).

(with D. R. Bohi) The Energy Upheavals of the 1970s: Policy Watershed or Aberration? in D. l. Feldman, ed.,

The Energy Crisis: Unresolved Issues and Enduring Legacies (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press,

1996).

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Energy Tax, in The Encyclopedia of the Environment (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1994).

"Climate Change Impacts on the Energy Sector and Po ssible Adjustments in the MINK [Missouri, Iowa,

Nebraska, Kansas] Region," Climatic Change, June 1993.

Review of L. Schipper and S. Meyers, Energy Efficiency and Human Activity in The Energy Journal, Vol. 14,

No. 2, 1993.

(with R. W. Fri) "Interconnections Between Energy and the Environment: Global Challenges," Annual Review

of Energy and the Environment, Vol. 17, 1992.

Selected Presentations and Professional Activities

Meeting the World s Natural Resource Needs: Confrontation Ahead? Presentation a t Spring Meeting,

Industrial Minerals Association-North America, Washington DC, April 27, 2011.

Panelist, Alternative Energy, Wintergreen Nature Foundation Living With the Planet Lecture Series, March

14, 2009, Nellysford VA.

Discussant, RFF Symposium Energy Policy Challenges: Is the Past Prologue? Oct. 29, 2008.

Presentation, Facing Up to U.S. Energy-Policy Dilemmas, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, American

University, Jan. 16, 2008.

Presentation, Energy Independence: Facts and Fantasies, Arlington Learning in Retirement Institute, George

Mason University, Arlington VA, Nov 1, 2006.

Presentation, Oil Import Dependence and National Security, OASIS, Washington DC, April 6, 2006.

Co-Organizer, Workshop on Higher Oil and Natural Gas Prices: Impact on Power Generation, Transportation

Choices, and CO2 Emissions, RFF-IFRI, Paris, March 30-31, 2006.

Panelist, Seminar on Clean Coal? RFF, Feb. 1, 2006.

Panelist, Seminar on Taking Measure of U.S. Energy Policy: A Review of the Energy Policy Act of 2005,

RFF, Nov. 2, 2005.

Panelist, program on FY05 Energy Budget and the Energy Bill s Tax Incentives, Sustainable Energy Institute,

March 12, 2004.

Served as editor, The Energy Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2003, Special Issue in Honor of Hans Landsberg and Sam

Schurr.

Lecture, The Economic and Policy Setting of Renewable Energy: Where Do Things Stand? Presented at

National Workshop on the Siting of Coastal Ocean Wind Power, Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole

Oceanographic Institution, Oct. 22, 2003.

Lecture, Options for U.S. Energy Security, Sarasota Institute of Lifetime Learning, Venice FL, March 5, 2003.

Lecture on U.S. energy policy, Learning-in-Retirement Institute, George Mason University, October 1, 2002..

Panelist, Cosmos Club Energy Symposium, Washington, April 28, 2001.

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The Role of Renewable Resources in U.S. Electricity Generation: Experience and Prospects, Testimony

Presented to Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, Feb. 28, 2001.

The Economy-Energy-CO2 Connection: A Review of Trends and Challenges. Paper presented at Greenhouse

Gas Technology Conference, Cairns, Australia, 13-16-August 2000.

The Role of Renewables in U.S. Electricity Generation: Experience and Prospects. Paper presented at

International BIOCLIMECO Workshop, Graz, Austria, November 19 -20, 1999.

Member, National Research Council Panel to Review the U.S. Geological Survey s Energy Resources Program,

1997-98. (Panel s report was published as Meeting U.S. Energy Resource Needs: The Energy Res ources

Program of the U.S. Geological Survey, National Academy Press, 1999.)

Member, review team evaluating National Institute for Global Environmental Change, sponsored by U.S. DOE,

administered by University of California/Davis, 1997.

Member, Committee on Earth Resources, National Research Council, 1994 -97.

Presented a series of lectures in Argentina sponsored by U.S. Information Agency, 1995

Organizer, National Research Council Workshop on "Valuing Natural Capital in Planning for Sustainable

Development," Woods Hole, MA, July 1993.

Organizer, sessions on natural resources, American Economic Association meeting, Washington, DC, December

1990.

Organizer, Symposium on Climate Change, AAAS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 1990.

Contributing Editor, Environment magazine, 1979-.

Member, Editorial Committee, Annual Review of Energy, 1975-1986.

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