Select Research Publications by 2035 Faculty

2025

  • Will Nomikos. “Local Peace, International Builders: How the UN Builds Peace from the Bottom Up.” Cambridge University Press.

  • Eric Masanet. “2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report.” Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

  • Paasha Mahdavi. “Collaborative Levers for Methane Abatement in National Oil Companies.” Environmental Defense Fund.

  • David Sherman. “The most difficult thing in the world: a sociocultural perspective on putting pro-environmental thoughts into action.” ScienceDirect.

  • Eric Masanet. “The climate opportunities and risks of improving building envelopes across 1,677 Chinese cities.” Cell Reports Sustainability.

  • Matto Mildenberger. “Sea-level rise maps can decrease risk perceptions in coastal communities.” PreventionWeb.

  • Cesar B. Martinez-Alvarez. “Political Institutions, Energy Transitions, and Air Quality: Evidence from Global Urban Areas.” Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy.

  • Eric Masanet. “Generalizable Machine Learning Models for Predicting Data Center Server Power, Efficiency, and Throughput.” Cornell University.

  • Ranjit Deshmukh. “Day-Ahead Operational Forecast of Aggregated Solar Generation Assimilating Mesoscale Meteorology Information.” IEEE Xplore.

  • Sarah Anderson. “Triangulating habitat suitability for the locally extirpated California grizzly bear.” ScienceDirect.

  • Eric Masanet. “Anionic Surfactants from Reactive Separation of Hydrocarbons Derived from Polyethylene Upcycling.” ACS Publications.

  • Mark Buntaine. “We Need a Global Climate Observatory.” University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.

  • Paasha Mahdavi. “Government efforts to reduce fossil fuel subsidies have failed at a very high rate.” Nature Climate Change.

  • Eric Masanet. “Shedding light on U.S. small and midsize data centers: Exploring insights from the CBECS survey.” ScienceDirect.

  • Ranjit Deshmukh. “Joint Probabilistic Day-Ahead Energy Forecast for Power System Operations.” Research Square.

  • Eric Masanet. “The water use of data center workloads: A review and assessment of key determinants.” ScienceDirect.

  • Mark Buntaine and Sarah Anderson. “Transparency by Chinese cities reduces pollution violations and improves air quality.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

  • Matto Mildenberger. “Survey sampling in the Global South using Facebook advertisements.” Cambridge University Press.

  • Paasha Mahdavi. “Green Backlash and Fossil Societies.” University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.

  • Alexandra Phillips. “Evaluating sulfurization as a blue carbon sink in a southern California salt marsh.” Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.

  • Matto Mildenberger. “Survey sampling in the Global South using Facebook advertisements – CORRIGENDUM.” Cambridge University Press.

  • Cesar Martinez-Alvarez . “Using Distributional Politics to Understand Global Progress on Ecosystem Conservation.” University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.

  • Matto Mildenberger. “Global geographic variation in climate concern at national and sub-national scales.” OSF Preprints.

  • Matto Mildenberger & Leah Stokes. “The effect of environmental voter mobilization on voter turnout and environmental attitudes: evidence from a field experiment in British Columbia, Canada.” Springer Nature.

  • David Sherman. “It's all connected: Collectivism, climate change, and COVID-19.” ScienceDirect.

  • Grace Wu. “Integrated Planning of Net-Zero Power Systems for All.” Research Square.

  • James Salzman. “8: Who owns ecosystem services?.” Rethinking the Law of Private Property.

2024

  • Mark T. Buntaine, Michael Greenstone, Guojun He, Mengdi Liu, Shaoda Wang, and Bing Zhang. “Does the Squeaky Wheel Get More Grease? The Direct and Indirect Effects of Citizen Participation on Environmental Governance in China.” American Economic Association.

  • Brianna Baker, Yvonne Dinh, Iris R. Foxfoot, Elena Ortiz, Alison Sells, and Sarah E. Anderson. “Social Inequity and Wildfire Response: Identifying Gaps and Interventions in Ventura County, California.” Fire.

  • David K. Sherman and Leaf Van Boven. “The connections - and misconnections - between the public and politicians over climate policy: A social psychological perspective.” Social Issues and Policy Review.

2023

  • Sage Kime, Veronica Jacome, David Pellow, and Ranjit Deshmukh. “Evaluating equity and justice in low-carbon energy transitions.” Environmental Research Letters.

  • J.B. Ruhl and James E. Salzman. “The Greens’ Dilemma: Building Tomorrow’s Climate Infrastructure Today.” Emory Law Journal.

  • Leah C. Stokes, Emma Franzblau, Jessica R. Lovering, and Chris Miljanich. “Prevalence and predictors of wind energy opposition in North America.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

  • Sarah E Anderson, Andrew J Plantinga, and Matthew Wibbenmeyer. “Inequality in Agency Response: Evidence from Salient Wildfire Events.” The Journal of Politics.

  • Ranjit Deshmukh, Paige Weber, Olivier Deschenes, Danae Hernandez-Cortes, Tia Kordell, Ruiwen Lee, Christopher Malloy, Tracey Mangin, Measrainsey Meng, Sandy Sum, Vincent Thivierge, Anagha Uppal, David W Lea, and Kyle C Meng. “Equitable low-carbon transition pathways for California’s oil extraction.” Nature Energy.

2022

  • Matto Mildenberger, Erick Lachapelle, Kathy Harrison, and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen, “Limited impacts of carbon tax rebate programs on public support for carbon pricing.” Nature Climate Change.

  • Paasha Mahdavi, Cesar Martinez-Alvarez, and Michael Ross. “Why Do Governments Tax or Subsidize Fossil Fuels?” Journal of Politics.

2021

  • Paasha Mahdavi, Jessica Green, Jennifer Hadden, and Thomas Hale. “Using Earnings Calls to Understand the Political Behavior of Major Polluters.” Global Environmental Politics.

  • Mark Buntaine, Bing Zhang and Patrick Hunnicutt. “Citizen Monitoring of Waterways Decreases Pollution in China by Supporting Government Action and Oversight”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

  • Jessica Green, Jennifer Hadden, Thomas Hale and Paasha Mahdavi. “Transition, Hedge, or Resist? Understanding Political and Economic Behavior toward Decarbonization in the Oil and Gas Industry.” Review of International Political Economy.

  • Alice Lépissier and Matto Mildenberger. “Unilateral climate policies can substantially reduce national carbon pollution.” Climatic Change.

  • Geoff Henderson, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Matto Mildenberger and Leah Stokes. “Conducting the heavenly chorus: Constituent contact and provoked petitioning in Congress.” Perspectives on Politics.

  • Jennifer Marlon et al. “Hot, dry days increase perceived experience with global warming." Global Environmental Change.

  • Tara Slough et al. “Adoption of Community Monitoring Improves Common Pool Resource Management Across Contexts.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

  • Navroz Dubash et al. “National climate institutions complement targets and policies.” Science.

  • Ryan Jablonski, Mark Buntaine, Daniel Nielson and Paula Pickering. “Individualized text messages about public services fail to sway voters: Evidence from a field experiment on Ugandan elections.” Journal of Experimental Political Science.

  • Aaron Sparks, Colin Kuehl, Heather Hodges, and Eric Smith, “The Incoherence of Sustainability Literacy Assessed with the Sulitest” Nature Sustainability.

  • Aaron Sparks, Heather Hodges, Sarah Oliver, and Eric Smith, “Confidence in Local, National, and International Scientists on Climate Change,” Sustainability.

  • Matto Mildenberger. “The development of climate institutions in the United States.” Environmental Politics.

2020

  • Leah Stokes. Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States. Oxford University Press.

  • Sarah Anderson, Daniel Butler, and Laurel Harbridge Yong. Rejecting Compromise: Legislators’ Perceptions of Primary Voters. Cambridge University Press.

  • Matto Mildenberger. Carbon Captured: How Business and Labor Control Climate Politics. MIT Press.

  • Paasha Mahdavi. Power Grab: Political Survival Through Extractive Resource Nationalization. Cambridge University Press.

  • Raphael Calel and Paasha Mahdavi. “Unintended consequences of anti-flaring policies and measures for mitigation.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

  • Parrish Bergquist, Matto Mildenberger and Leah Stokes. 2020. “How combining climate policy with economic and social reforms increases support for climate action.” Environment Research Letters.

  • Chad Hazlett and Matto Mildenberger. 2020. “Wildfire exposure increases pro-environment voting within Democratic but not Republican areas.” American Political Science Review.

  • Paasha Mahdavi. “Institutions and the ‘resource curse’: Evidence from cases of oil related bribery.” Comparative Political Studies.

  • Phillip Ehret, Heather Hodges, Colin Kuehl, Cameron Brick, Sean Mueller, and Sarah Anderson. “Systematic Review of Household Water Conservation Interventions Using the Information–Motivation–Behavioral Skills Model:” Environment and Behavior.

  • Mark Buntaine and Brigham Daniels. “Combining Bottom-Up Monitoring and Top-Down Accountability: A Field Experiment on Managing Corruption in Uganda”. Research & Politics.

  • Michaël Aklin and Matto Mildenberger. “Prisoners of the wrong dilemma: Why distributive conflict, not collective action, characterizes the politics of climate change.” Global Environmental Politics.

  • Aaron Sparks, Geoff Henderson, Shyam Sriram and Eric RAN Smith, “Measuring Environmental Values and Identity,” Society & Natural Resources.

  • Baobao Zhang and Matto Mildenberger. “Scientists' political behaviors are not driven by individual-level government benefits.” PLoS One.

  • Mark Buntaine, Patrick Hunnicutt and Polycarp Komakech. “The Challenges of Using Citizen Reporting to Improve Public Services: A Field Experiment on Solid Waste Services in Uganda.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

2019

  • Matto Mildenberger Peter Howe and Chris Miljanich. “Households with solar installations are ideologically diverse and more politically active than their neighbors.” Nature Energy.

  • Peter Howe, Jennifer Marlon, Matto Mildenberger and Brittany Shields. “How will climate change shape climate opinions?” Environmental Research Letters.

  • Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Matto Mildenberger and Leah Stokes. “Legislative staff and representation in Congress.” American Political Science Review.

  • Matto Mildenberger, Mark Lubell and Michelle Hummel. “Local, spatially-resolved risk messaging can reduce climate concerns.” Global Environmental Change.

  • Matto Mildenberger and Dustin Tingley. “Beliefs about climate beliefs: The problem of second-order opinions in climate politics.” British Journal of Political Science.

  • Elizabeth Hiroyasu, Chris Miljanich and Sarah Anderson. “Drivers of Support: The Case of Species Reintroductions with an Ill-Informed Public.” Human Dimensions of Wildlife.

  • Sarah Anderson, Mark Buntaine, Mengdi Liu, and Bing Zhang. “Non-Governmental Monitoring of Local Governments Increases Compliance with Central Mandates: A National-Scale Field Experiment in China.” American Journal of Political Science.

  • Matthew Wibbenmeyer, Sarah Anderson and Andrew Plantinga. “Salience and the Government Provision of Public Goods.” Economic Inquiry.

  • Sarah Anderson, Robert DeLeo, and Kristin O'Donovan. “Policy Entrepreneurs, Legislators, and Agenda Setting: Information and Influence.” Policy Studies Journal.

  • Mark Buntaine, Daniel Nielson and Jacob Skaggs. “Escaping the Disengagement Dilemma: Two Field Experiments on Motivating Citizens to Report on Public Services.” British Journal of Political Science.