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Joel Darmstadter
Senior Fellow
202-328-5050
darmstadter@rff.org
Research Topics
 
Professional Experience
 
Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future, 1966 - present.
 
Director, Resources for the Future, Energy and Materials Division, 1984 - 1988.
 
Professional Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, 1983 - 1993.
 
Economist, National Planning Association, 1957 - 1966.
 
Active Duty, U.S. Army, 1955 - 1957.
 
Research Assistant (for several economic research organizations), 1952 - 1955.
 
Professional Activities
 
Committee Memberships:
 
Committee on Earth Resources, National Research Council, 1994 - 1997.
 
 
Editorial Activities:
 
Contributing Editor, Environment magazine, 1979 - present.
 
Editorial Committee, Annual Review of Energy, 1975 - 1986.
 
Public Service
 
"The Role of Renewable Resources in U.S. Electricity Generation: Experience and Prospects." Delivered to the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science, Washington, D.C., February 28, 2001.
 
 
Panels and Symposiums:
 
Panelist, Cosmos Club Energy Symposium, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2001.
 
Member, National Research Council Panel to Review the U.S. Geological Survey's Energy Resources Program, 1997 - 1999.
 
Member, review team evaluating National Institute for Global Environmental Change, sponsored by U.S. DOE, administered by University of California at Davis, 1997.
 
Organizer, National Research Council Workshop ("Valuing Natural Capital in Planning for Sustainable Development"), Woods Hole, MA, July 1993.
 
Organizer, American Economic Association meeting (sessions on natural resources), Washington, D.C., December 1990.
 
Organizer, AAAS Annual Meeting (Symposium on Climate Change), New Orleans, LA, February 1990.
 
 
Lecturer:
 
Lecture on U.S. energy policy, George Mason University, Learning-in-Retirement Institute, May 15, 2001.
 
 
Consultant:
 
Consultant, National Research Council Committee on Valuing Ground Water, 1994 - 1996.
 
Featured Publications
The Prospective Role of Unconventional Liquid Fuels
Joel Darmstadter
Backgrounder | June 2010
 
Incorporating Resource and Environmental Change in a Nation’s Economic Accounts: Roles for Earth Science Applications
Joel Darmstadter
IB 08-04 | November 2008
 
Unconventional Fossil-Based Fuels: Economic and Environmental Trade-Offs
Michael Toman, Aimee Curtright, David Ortiz, Joel Darmstadter, and Brian Shannon
RAND Corporation Technical Report | 2008
 
Energy Independence: Fantasies, Facts, Options
Joel Darmstadter
Issue Brief 06-02 | December 2006
 
Expanding Oil Supplies
Joel Darmstadter, Robert Weiner
Resources | Fall 2006 (163)
 
Invited Comment on Exchange Between Carl Pope and Bjorn Lomborg
Joel Darmstadter
Foreign Policy | Sept/Oct 2005 | pp. 14-16
 
Review of The New Consumers: The Influence of Affluence on the Environment: by Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent (Washington: Island Press, 2004)
Joel Darmstadter
Environmental Conservation | June 2005 | Vol. 32, No. 2
 
Renewable Sources of Electricity: Safe Bet or Tilting at Windmills?
Joel Darmstadter, Karen L. Palmer
Resources | Winter 2005 (156)
 
Slaking Our Thirst for Oil
Ian Parry and Joel Darmstadter
New Approaches on Energy and the Environment: Policy Advice for the President | pp. 23-27
 
Slaking our Thirst for Oil
Ian Parry and Joel Darmstadter
New Approaches on Energy and the Environment: Policy Advice for the President | Richard D. Morgenstern and Paul R. Portney, eds. | RFF Press | 2004 | Chapter 4
 
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