NUCLEAR POWER, NUCLEAR WASTE
AP Photo
Fall 2009
"Energy for Change: Introduction to the Special Issue on Energy & Climate Change"
Journal Article, Innovations, issue 4, volume 4
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
"Without energy, there is no economy. Without climate, there is no environment. Without economy and environment, there is no material well-being, no civil society, no personal or national security. The overriding problem associated with these realities, of course, is that the world has long been getting most of the energy its economies need from fossil fuels whose emissions are imperiling the climate that its environment needs."
April 2007
Energy Policy Recommendations to the President and the 110th Congress
Report
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, William K. Reilly, John W. Rowe, Philip Sharp, Senior Research Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program, Former Associate, Harvard Electricity Policy Group, 2001-2003; Former Lecturer in Public Policy, 1995-2001; Former Dir., IOP; HKS, 1995-1998, 2004-05 and Jason Grumet
The National Commission on Energy Policy proposes revised policies regarding a cap and trade proposal for addressing global climate change, increases in fuel economy standards, approaches for the storage of nuclear waste, development and deployment of advanced coal technologies, adoption of a national renewable energy standard, and other major energy policy issues.
February 2007
Assessing the President's FY08 Energy RD&D Budget Request
Paper
By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
An analysis of U.S. Government Investments in Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Database.
January / February 2007
"The Sky Is Falling"
Journal Article, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, (Special Issue: Five Minutes to Midnight), issue 1, volume 63
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
An interview with John P. Holdren in The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in the magazine's Five Minutes to Midnight issue.
2006
"Energy-Technology Innovation"
Journal Article, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, volume 31
By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Ambuj D. Sagar, Former Visiting Scholar, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group (ETIP), June 2009; Former Research Fellow, ETIP, 1996-2002; Former Senior Research Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 2007-2008 and John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
This paper examines the state of understanding of energy-technology innovation and its role in augmenting energy resources, enhancing the quality of energy services, and reducing the economic, environmental, or political costs associated with energy supply and use.
August 23, 2006
"Iran's Diplomacy in Action"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Abbas Maleki, Former Senior Research Associate, International Security Program and Kaveh L. Afrasiabi
In this insider's assessment of Iran's long-awaited response to the incentive package offered by the United States and other world powers, Abbas Maleki and Kaveh Afrasiabi argue that this is an opportunity for diplomacy that could actually halt Iran's nuclear enrichment and address the concerns of the West.
July 21, 2006
Why Not Involve Iran in Effort To Establish Order in Mideast?
Op-Ed, Forward
By Abbas Maleki, Former Senior Research Associate, International Security Program
The world faces different crises all the time, and each generation feels its crises to be the biggest.
2005
Energy & Security: Toward a New Foreign Policy Strategy
Book
For more than a century, energy and its procurement have been central to the U.S. position as a world power.
2005
"Commentary on Part VI (A New Energy Security Strategy)"
Book Chapter
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
For more than a century, energy and its procurement have been central to the U.S. position as a world power.
April 25, 2005
Energy Technology for Sustainable Development
Op-Ed, Harvard Crimson
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
Human well-being rests on a foundation of three pillars: economic conditions and processes; sociopolitical conditions and processes; and environmental conditions and processes. Arguments about which pillar is “the most important” are misguided. All three pillars are indispensable.
