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Current Research Projects

Energy Policies

Carbon Management on Public Lands in the Intermountain West: Multi-Scale Analysis of Carbon Stock Responses to Human and Natural Disturbances

Carbon Management on Public Lands in the Intermountain West: Multi-Scale Analysis of Carbon Stock Responses to Human and Natural DisturbancesLisa Dilling, Jason Neff, Jana Milford and Nichole Barger are pursuing an integrated multi-scale approach to the evaluation of carbon stocks and fate under different management on public lands in the Intermountain West. Read more ...

 

Improved Cookstove Research in Northern Ghana

Cooking Up Clean Air: Demand for Improved Cookstoves and Implications for Air Quality and Health in GhanaNearly 3 billion people cook over open flames on a daily basis. This behavior impacts local and regional air quality, global climate, and human health. Two hundred households in the Kassena-Nankana district of Northern Ghana were randomly selected to participate in a randomized field trial of two types of improved biomass-burning cookstoves. Read more ...

 

ICECaps: International Collective on Environment, Culture & Politics

ICECaPsFounded in 2012 at the University of Colorado Boulder, the International Collective on Environment, Culture and Politics is a research group that examines some of today’s most pressing environmental issues. ICE CaPs members and affiliates cross disciplines to apply a wide range of theories and perspectives to study issues at the human-environment interface. We work across scales from the individual to the global. Read more ...