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    1.     » Center for Ocean Solutions
    2.     » Food Security & the Environment
    3.     » Natural Capital Project
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    1.     » Sustainable Built Environment

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    1.     » Center for Ocean Solutions
    2.     » Food Security & the Environment
    3.     » Natural Capital Project
  • Uncommon Dialogues:
    1.     » Biofuels
    2.     » Carbon Offsets
    3.     » Climate Change
    4.     » Pacific Salmon
    5.     » U.S. Farm Bill
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Problem-Solving Areas

• Technologies and policies for end-use energy efficiency
• Cleaner, sustainable energy sources
• Global climate change science, modeling and policy
• Institutions and policy-making
• Energy for sustainable development
• Market design, including cap and trade

Woods-Sponsored Research Projects

• Biofuels Workshop
• Climate Change Project. An inter-university collaboration that facilitates the use of university research in the design, adoption and implementation of effective strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in California. Its aim is to build bridges between scholars and decision-makers in government, business and the public through targeted forums, collaborations, publications and education.
• Energy Efficiency Program. The focus of the Woods Institute in this area is to improve the opportunities for and implementation of energy-efficient technologies, systems and practices, with an emphasis on economically attractive deployment.
• Environmental Venture Projects. EVPs provide seed funding for promising, potentially transformative research involving interdisciplinary teams of Stanford faculty. Topics include biodegradable composites for the building industry and biomineralization and past climate change.
• Survey Research Illuminating American Public Opinion on Energy and Climate. The Woods Institute is very pleased to have sponsored a series of survey research studies illuminating Americans' views of issues involving energy and climate change.

Related Research Programs & Projects

• Atmostphere/Energy Program. This program seeks to bridge these two areas of study.
• Carnegie Institution, Department of Global Ecology (at Stanford). The Carnegie Institution is a private organization that conducts basic research for the benefit of humanity. Its Department of Global Ecology, founded in 2002 on the campus of Stanford University, conducts basic research on the interactions among the earth's ecosystems, land, atmosphere, and oceans.
• Energy Modeling Forum. The EMF provides a structured forum for discussing important energy and environmental issues. Studies are organized around an ad hoc working group that focuses its discussion by comparing the results of different market and planning models. Participants are leading energy experts and advisors from government, industry, universities, and other research organizations.
• Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency
• Global Climate & Energy Project GCEP is a long-term research effort bringing together the world's leading scientists from universities, research institutions and private industry in fundamental, pre-commercial research on technologies that would foster the development of a global energy system with low greenhouse gas emissions
• Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment. This project studies the response of California grassland to 4 environmental factors changing globally--warming, nitrogen deposition, elevated carbon dioxide, and increased precipitation.
• Program on Energy & Sustainable Development. PESD is a multi-year, interdisciplinary program that draws on the fields of political science, law and economics to investigate how the production and consumption of energy affect sustainable development.
• Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment Program, Stanford Institute on Economic Policy Research. This program conducts research in three areas of energy and the environment: environmental consequences of economic activity associated with energy production and use; the restructuring or deregulation of energy markets, particularly electricity markets; and the use of economic instruments to control environmental harms.
• Stanford Geothermal Program. The primary objective of the Stanford Geothermal Program is the development of reservoir engineering techniques to allow for the production of the nation's geothermal resources in the most efficient manner possible.