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David G. Victor
Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development; Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Senior Fellow; Stanford Professor of Law; Woods Institute Senior Fellow by courtesy
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dgvictor@stanford.edu
(650) 724-1712 (phone)
(650) 724-1717 (fax)
PESD
Stanford University
Encina Hall E415
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Energy policy - the future role of natural gas, electric power market reform, and rural energy development; genetically modified foods/plants and related trade policy; climate change policy; role of technology, innovation and competition in development; and forest policy
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Working Papers
 

Rural Electrification in China 1950-2004: Historical processes and key driving forces

Pan Jiahua, Peng Wuyuan, Li Meng Li Meng, Wu Xiangyang Wu Xiangyang, Wan Lishuang, Rebecca J. Elias, David G. Victor, Hisham Zerriffi, Chi Zhang
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #60 (2006) +PDF+
 

Greenhouse Gas Implications in Large Scale Infrastructure Investments in Developing Countries: Examples from China and India

Michael Jackson, Sarah Joy, Thomas C. Heller, David G. Victor
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #54 (2006) +PDF+
 

Beyond Free Electricity: The Cost of Electric Cooking in Poor Households and a Market-friendly Alternative

Mark Howells, David G. Victor, Trevor Gaunt, Rebecca J. Elias, Thomas Alfstad
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #42 (2005) +PDF+
 

Energy Transitions in Developing Countries: a Review of Concepts and Literature

Rebecca J. Elias, David G. Victor
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #40 (2005) +PDF+
 

Geopolitics of Natural Gas Project Summary: Insights to 2040

Amy Jaffe, Mark H. Hayes, David G. Victor
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #36 (2005) +PDF+
 

Politics, Markets, and the Shift to Gas: Insights from Seven Historical Case Studies

Mark H. Hayes, David G. Victor
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #35 (2005) +PDF+
 

Baseline for carbon emissions in the Indian and Chinese power sectors: implications for international carbon trading

Chi Zhang, Thomas C. Heller, David G. Victor, P.R. Shukla, Debhashish Biswas, Tirthankar Nag
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #34 (2005) +PDF+

Belarus Connection: Exporting Russian Gas to Germany and Poland, The

David G. Victor, Nadejda Victor
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #26 (2004) +PDF+
 

Experience with Independent Power Projects (IPPs) in Developing Countries: Introduction and Case Study Methods, The

David G. Victor, Thomas C. Heller, Joshua C. House, Pei Yee Woo
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #23 (2004) +PDF+
 

Captive Power Plants: Case Study of Gujarat, India

P.R. Shukla, Debashish Biswas, Tirthankar Nag, Amee Yajnik, Thomas C. Heller, David G. Victor
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #22 (2004) +PDF+
 

Impact of Power Sector Reforms on Technology, Efficiency and Emissions: Case Study of Gujarat, India

P.R. Shukla, Debashish Biswas, Tirthankar Nag, Amee Yajnik, Thomas C. Heller, David G. Victor
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #21 (2004) +PDF+
 

Impact of Power Sector Reforms on Technology, Efficiency and Emissions: Case Study of Andhra Pradesh, India

P.R. Shukla, Debashish Biswas, Tirthankar Nag, Amee Yajnik, Thomas C. Heller, David G. Victor
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #20 (2004) +PDF+
 

Factors that Explain Investment in Cross-Border Natural Gas Transport Infrastructures: A Research Protocol for Historical Case Studies

Mark H. Hayes, David G. Victor
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #8 (2004) +PDF+
 

Political Economy and the Hydrogen Revolution

David G. Victor, Thomas C. Heller, Nadejda M. Victor
The Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #17 (2003) +PDF+
 

Electricity Restructuring and the Social Contract

Thomas C. Heller, Henri Tjiong, David G. Victor
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #15 (2003) +PDF+
 

Regime Complex for Plant Genetic Resources, The

David G. Victor, Kal Raustiala
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #14 (2003) +PDF+
 

Political Economy of Electric Power Market Restructuring: Introduction to Issues and Expectations, A

Thomas C. Heller, David G. Victor
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #1 (2003) +PDF+
 

Macro Patterns in the Use of Traditional Biomass Fuels

David G. Victor, Nadejda M. Victor
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #10 (2002) +PDF+
 

Vision for Global Electrification, A

David G. Victor
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #7 (2002) +PDF+
Reports

India Nuclear Deal, the: Implications for Global Climate Change

David G. Victor
PESD (2006) +PDF+

The Effects of Power Sector Reform on Energy Services for the Poor

David G. Victor
UNDESA (2005) +PDF+ +HTML+
 

Natural Gas Research Platform Prospectus

David G. Victor, Mark H. Hayes, Amy Jaffe
(2004) +PDF+
 

Forest Plantations and a Vision for Restoring the Forests

David G. Victor
(2003) +PDF+
Journal Articles

Can We Stop Global Warming? The only practical approach is to pursue technologies that burn coal more cleany

David G. Victor, Danny Cullenward
Boston Review vol. 32, 1 (2007) +HTML+

Beyond free electricity: The costs of electric cooking in poor households and a market-friendly alternative

Mark Howells, David G. Victor, Trevor Grant, Rebecca J. Elias, Thomas Alfstad
Energy Policy vol. 34 (2006) +HTML+

Gas and oil do not mix in the chaotic world of energy policy

David Victor
Financial Times (London) (2006) +PDF+

The Dam Debate and its Discontents

Danny Cullenward, David Victor
Climatic Change vol. 75, 1-2 (2006) +HTML+

Recovering Sustainable Development

David G. Victor
Foreign Affairs vol. 85, 1 (2006) +PDF+ +HTML+

A Madisonian Approach to Climate Policy

David Victor, Joshua House, Sarah Joy
Science vol. 309, 5742 (2005) +HTML+

BP's emissions trading system

David G. Victor, Joshua C. House
Energy Policy (2005) +HTML+

An Energy Model for a Low Income Rural African Village

Mark I. Howells, Thomas Alfstad, David G. Victor, Gary Goldstein, Uwe Remme
Energy Policy vol. 33, 14 (2005) +HTML+

A Herd Mentality in the Design of International Environmental Agreements?

David G. Victor, Lesley A. Coben
Global Environmental Politics vol. 5, 1 (2005) +HTML+

The Regime Complex for Plant Genetic Resources

David G. Victor, Kal Raustiala
International Organization vol. 32, 02 (2004) +PDF+ +HTML+

A New Currency: Climate Change and Carbon Credits

David G. Victor, Joshua C. House
Harvard International Review (2004) +PDF+

Axis of Oil?

David G. Victor, Nadejda M. Victor
Foreign Affairs vol. 82, 2 (2003) +PDF+

Farming the Genetic Frontier

David G. Victor, C. Ford Runge
Foreign Affairs (2002) +HTML+
Books & Book Chapters

Natural Gas and Geopolitics: From 1970 to 2040

David G. Victor, Amy M. Jaffe, Mark H. Hayes
Cambridge University Press (2006) +BUY+ +PDF+

Electricity Reforms in India: Firm Choices and Emerging Generation Markets

P.R. Shukla, Thomas C. Heller, David G. Victor, Debashish Biswas, Tirthankar Nag, Amee Yajnik
Tata McGraw Hill (2004) +HTML+

Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Options

David G. Victor
The Council on Foreign Relations (2004) +BUY+ +PDF+ +HTML+

Technological Innovation & Economic Performance

B. Steil, David G. Victor, R. R. Nelson
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (2002) +BUY+

Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming, The

David G. Victor
Princeton University Press (2001) +BUY+
Op-eds

Hot Air is Not Enough As global warming flummoxes politicians, the air engineers will rise.

David G. Victor
Newsweek International, June 25, 2007

Gas and Oil Do not Mix in the Chaotic World of Energy Policy

David G. Victor
Financial Times (London), May 9, 2006
 

How to manage our oil addiction (And the answer isn't more ethanol)

David G. Victor
Houston Chronicle News, April 15, 2006
 

Nuclear power for India is good for us all

David G. Victor
International Herald Tribune, March 17, 2006
 

Recovering Sustainable Development

David G. Victor
Foreign Affairs, January 4, 2006
 

Politics Dog the Oil Reserve An independent panel should be given control of the U.S. stockpile.

David G. Victor, Joshua C. House
Los Angeles Times, August 22, 2004
 

A Trade Battle That Will Cost America Dear

David G. Victor
Financial Times, May 15, 2003
 

A Trade Battle That Will Cost America Dear

David G. Victor, C. Ford Runge
The Financial Times, May 15, 2003
 

Genetically Modified and Healthy

David G. Victor, C. Ford Runge
The International Herald Tribune, February 19, 2003
 

Nuclear Energy, Not Oil, Should Fuel US-Russian Ties

David G. Victor, Nadejda M. Victor
South China Morning Post, February 19, 2003
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