Life cycle assessment of wine packaging
Team: Chung Hang Cheung, Alexandria Florin, Sophie Long, Melanie Sanchez, Benjamin Van Aken Advisor: Deepak Rajagopal Client: Fetzer Wineries
Deepak Rajagopal
Assistant Professor
Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
(310) 794-4903
rdeepak@ioes.ucla.edu
La Kretz Hall, Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567
Bio
Energy Jeopardy Env157 Fall 2016
EVCalc1.0 – Spread-sheet calculator for comparing EVs to non-EVs
Research Interests
Lifecycle assessment, Energy Economics and Policy, Agricultural Economics and Policy, Climate Policy
Education
- Ph.D., Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley
- M.S., Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
- B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
Teaching
Environment 159: Life Cycle Analysis and Tools for Sustainability Assessment
Environment 157: Energy, Environment and Development
- View the course syllabus
Environment 180: Senior Practicum
- 2011-2012: Lifecycle analysis based comparison of Battery and gasoline vehicles
- 2012-2013: Lifecycle analysis of building
Recent Publications
- D. Rajagopal: A synthesis of unilateral approaches to mitigating emissions leakage under incomplete policies. Climate Policy doi:10.1080/14693062.2016.1150249
- D. Rajagopal. A step towards a general mathematical framework for Consequential Life Cycle Assessment. Journal of Industrial Ecology In press.
- M. Accordino and D. Rajagopal (2015): When a National Cap-and-Trade Policy with a Carve-out Provision May Be Preferable to a National CO$_2$ Tax, The Energy Journal, Vol.36, No.3 189–207.
- D. Rajagopal (2015): On approaches to mitigate emissions leakage under biofuel policies. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, Volume 8, Issue 2, March 2016, Pages: 471-480
- D. Rajagopal, R. Plevin, G. Hochman, and D. Zilberman (2015): Multi-criteria comparison of alternative fuel policies: Renewable fuel standards, clean fuel standards and fuel GHG tax. Energy Economics,Vol.49, 359–369
- S. Z. Attari and D. Rajagopal (2015): Enabling energy conservation through effective decision aids. Journal of Sustainability Education. Volume 8.
- G. Hochman, D. Rajagopal, G. Timilsina and D. Zilberman (2014). Quantifying the causes of the global food commodity price crisis. Biomass and Bioenergy 68, 106-114
- D. Rajagopal (2014): Consequential life cycle assessment of policy vulnerability to price effects. Journal of Industrial Ecology 18 (2), 164-175
Recent blog posts
Personal blog: Watt’s green?
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Projects
Increasing the Beneficial use of Organic Waste in California
Background California’s dairy industry has a long and rich history. It stands today as the largest dairy state with some of the most unique laws and regulations in the country. Our project aims to provide more clear information on sustainable dairy farm processes, advocacy and policy. Policy, climate, culture and size all contribute to the...