Publications

2017

Bringezu, S., Ramaswami, A., Schandl, H., O’Brien, M., Pelton, R., Acquatella, J., Ayuk, E., Chiu, A., Flanegin, R., Fry, J., Giljum, S., Hashimoto, S., Hellweg, S., Hosking, K., Hu, Y., Lenzen, M., Lieber, M., Lutter, S., Miatto, A., … Zivy, R. (2017). Assessing global resource use: A systems approach to resource efficiency and pollution reduction. United Nations Environment Programme, International Resource Panel.
Miller-Robbie, L., Ramaswami, A., & Amerasinghe, P. (2017). Wastewater treatment and reuse in urban agriculture: Exploring the food, energy, water, and health nexus in Hyderabad, India. Environmental Research Letters.
Ramaswami, A., Boyer, D., Nagpure, A., Fang, A., Bogra, S., Bakshi, B., Cohen, E., & Rao-Ghorpade, A. (2017). An urban systems framework to assess the trans-boundary food-energy-water nexus: Implementation in Delhi, India. Environmental Research Letters, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa5556
Ramaswami, A., Jiang, D., Tong, K., & Zhao, J. (2017). Impact of the Economic Structure of Cities on Urban Scaling Factors: Implications for Urban Material and Energy Flows in China. Journal of Industrial Ecology.
Ramaswami, A., Tong, K., Fang, A., Lal, R., Nagpure, A., Li, Y., Yu, H., Jiang, D., Russell, A., Shi, L., Chertow, M., Wang, Y., & Wang, S. (2017). Urban cross-sector actions for carbon mitigation with local health co-benefits in China. Nature Climate Change.
Tong, K., Fang, A., Yu, H., Li, Y., Shi, L., Wang, Y., Wang, S., & Ramaswami, A. (2017). Estimating the potential for industrial waste heat reutilization in urban district energy systems: Method development and implementation in two Chinese provinces. Environmental Research Letters.
Yi, H., Suo, L., Shen, R., Zhang, J., Ramaswami, A., & Feiock, R. (2017). Regional Governance and Institutional Collective Action for Environmental Sustainability. Public Administration Review.

2016

Bringezu, S., Potočnik, J., Schandl, H., Lu, Y., Ramaswami, A., Swilling, M., & Suh, S. (2016). Multi-Scale Governance of Sustainable Natural Resource Use—Challenges and Opportunities for Monitoring and Institutional Development at the National and Global Level. Sustainability.
Ramaswami, A., Russell, A., Culligan, P., Sharma, K., & Kumar, E. (2016). Meta-principles for developing smart, sustainable, and healthy cities. Science.
Tong, K., Fang, A., Boyer, D., Hu, Y., Cui, S., Shi, L., Kalmykova, Y., & Ramaswami, A. (2016). Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from key infrastructure sectors in large and smaller Chinese cities: method development and benchmarking. Carbon Management.

2014

Seto, K., Dhakal, S., Bigio, A., Blanco, H., Delgado, G., Dewar, D., Huang, L., Inaba, A., Kansal, A., Lwasa, S., McMahon, J., Müller, D., Murakami, J., Nagendra, H., & Ramaswami, A. (2014). Human Settlements, Infrastructure and Spatial Planning. In AR5 Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change (pp. 923-1000). Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

2012

Liu, R., Durham, S., Rens, K., & Ramaswami, A. (2012). Optimization of cementitious material content for sustainable concrete mixtures. ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering.
Ramaswami, A., Bernard, M., Chavez, A., Hillman, T., Whitaker, M., Thomas, G., & Marshall, M. (2012). Quantifying Carbon Mitigation Wedges in US Cities: Near-Term Strategy Analysis and Critical Review. Environmental Science & Technology.
Ramaswami, A., Chavez, A., & Chertow, M. (2012). Carbon Footprinting of Cities and Implications for Analysis of Urban Material and Energy Flows. Journal of Industrial Ecology.
Solis, A., Durham, S., & Ramaswami, A. (2012). Providing Storm water Management Solutions in Rajkot, India: A Pervious Concrete System Demonstration. International Journal of the Constructed Environment, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.18848/2154-8587/CGP/v02i03/37338
Zborel, T., Holland, B., Thomas, G., Baker, L., Calhoun, K., & Ramaswami, A. (2012). Translating Research to Policy for Sustainable Cities: What Works and What Doesn’t?. Journal of Industrial Ecology.

2011

Amekudzi, A., Ramaswami, A., Chan, E., Lam, K., Meng, W., & Zhu, D. (2011). Contextualizing carbon reduction initiatives: how should carbon mitigation be addressed by various cities worldwide?. In Carbon Management.
Hillman, T., Janson, B., & Ramaswami, A. (2011). Spatial Allocation of Transportation Greenhouse Gas Emissions at the City Scale. ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering.
Kennedy, C., Ramaswami, A., Carney, S., & Dhakal, S. (2011). Greenhouse Gas Emission Baselines for Global Cities and Metropolitan Regions. In Cities and Climate Change: Responding to an Urgent Agenda (pp. 15-49). The World Bank.
Kocman, S., Guo, J., & Ramaswami, A. (2011). Waste Incorporated Sub-base for Porous Landscape Detention Basin Design. ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering.
Ramaswami, A., & Sperling, J. (2011). Epilogue: Knowledge and Field Measurements on Cities and Climate Change. In Cities and Climate Change: Responding to an Urgent Agenda (pp. 255-259). The World Bank.
Ramaswami, A., Main, D., Bernard, M., Chavez, A., Davis, A., Thomas, G., & Schnoor, K. (2011). Planning for low-carbon communities in US cities: a participatory process model between academic institutions, local governments and communities in Colorado. Carbon Management.
Ramaswami, A., Chavez, A., Ewing-Thiel, J., & Reeve, K. (2011). Two Approaches to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting at the City-scale. Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/es201166n
Ramaswami, A., & Dhakal, S. (2011). Low-carbon policies in the USA and China: Why Cities Play a Critical Role. Carbon Management.
Ramaswami, A., Schauer, J., Li, X., & Chan, E. (2011). Conference Report: US–China Workshop on Pathways Toward Low Carbon Cities: quantifying baselines and interventions. In Carbon Management.

2010

Hillman, T., & Ramaswami, A. (2010). Greenhouse Gas Emission Footprints and Energy Use Metrics for Eight US Cities. Environmental Science & Technology.
Ramaswami, A. (2010). Finding and Educating Self and Others Across Multiple Domains: Crossing Cultures, Disciplines and Research Modalities. In What is Global Engineering Education For? The Making of International Educators (pp. 150-174). Morgan Claypool Publishers.
Siddiki, S., Martell, C., & Ramaswami, A. (2010). Defining and Measuring Sustainability in Public Private Water Infrastructure Partnerships in Developing Countries. In Public Private Partnerships (pp. 266-281). Taylor and Francis.