Selected Publications

“The Environmental Potential of Reuse,” V. M. Thomas. Submitted to Journal of Industrial Ecology, February 2007.

 “Relation of Chlorine, Copper, and Sulfur to Dioxin Emission Factors,” V. M. Thomas and C. M. McCreight. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 151, 164-170, 2008. 

 “Systematic Approach to Evaluating Tradeoffs among Fuel Options: The Lessons of MTBE,” J. Michael Davis and Valerie M. Thomas. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1076:498-515 (2006). 

"Toward Intelligent Recycling: A Proposal to Link Bar Codes to Recycling Information," S. Saar and V. M. Thomas. Resources, Conservation, and Recycling 41(1):15-21, 2004 (pdf). 

"Product Self-Management: Evolution in Recycling and Reuse," V. M. Thomas. Environmental Science and Technology 37 (23) 5297-5302, 2003.

Research Issues in Sustainable Consumption: Toward an Analytical Framework for Materials and the Environment,” V. M. Thomas and T. E. Graedel. Environmental Science and Technology 37 (23) 5383-5388, 2003.

"Demand and Dematerialization Impacts of Second-Hand Markets: Reuse or More Use?" V. M. Thomas. Journal of Industrial Ecology 7(2), 65-78, 2003 (pdf).

"Theoretical Calculation of Product Contents: Battery and Cathode-Ray Tube Examples." Environmental Science and Technology 37, 2016-2019, 2003.

"Advanced Product Tags for Environmental Management," S. Saar and V. Thomas. Journal of Industrial Ecology 6(2):133-146, 2003 (pdf).

"Industrial Ecology: Policy Potential and Research Needs." V. Thomas, T. Theis, R. Lifset, D. Grasso, B. Kim, C. Koshland, and R. Pfahl. Environmental Engineering Science 20(1):1-9, 2003 (pdf).

"No Evidence of Dioxin Cancer Threshold," D. Mackie, J. Liu, Y.-S. Loh, and V. Thomas. Environmental Health Perspectives,111 (9):1145-1147, 2003) (pdf).

Toward Trash That Thinks: Product Tags for Environmental Management,” S. Saar and V. Thomas. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 6(2):133-146, 2002.

"Ethanol as a Lead Replacement: Phasing Out Leaded Gasoline in Africa," V. M. Thomas and A. Kwong, Energy Policy 29:1133-1143, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0301-4215(01)00041-6

"Assessing Mercury Vapor Exposure from Cultural and Religious Practices"  D. M. Riley, C. A. Newby, and V. M. Thomas. Environmental Health Perspectives109(8):779-784, 2001.

"Soviet and Post-Soviet Environmental Management: Lessons from a Case Study of Lead Pollution"  V. M. Thomas and A. O. Orlova. Ambio 30(2):104-111, 2001. Russian language version also available.

"Effects of Reducing Lead in Gasoline: An Analysis of the International Experience,"  V. M. Thomas, R. H. Socolow, J. J. Fanelli, and T. G. Spiro.  Environ. Science and Technol., 33(22):3942-3947, 1999.  See also comments from others, and our response, published in Environ. Science and Technol. 34(19):4253-4254, 2000.

"Dioxin and Related Compounds," E. K. Silbergeld and V. M. Thomas, pp. 1185-1198 in Environmental and Occupational Medicine, W. Rom, ed., 3rd ed., Lippincott-Raven, 1998 (pdf).

"Dioxin Emissions Inventories," V. Thomas and T. Spiro, pp. 1359 - 1365 in Encyclopedia of Environmental Analysis and Remediation, R. A. Meyers, ed. Wiley Publishers, 1998.

"Bromine Emissions from Leaded Gasoline," V. M. Thomas, J. A. Bedford and R. J. Cicerone. Geophysical Research Letters 24(11):1371-1374, 1997.

"The Industrial Ecology of Lead and Electric Vehicles," R. H. Socolow and V. M. Thomas. Journal of Industrial Ecology 1(1):13-36, 1997. Re-published in Managing a Material World: Perspectives in Industrial Ecology. P. Vellinga, F. Berkhout, J. Gupta, eds., Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, 1998. Also republished in The Future of the Electric Vehicle, H. A. Kukcuk, ed., Informationen zur Elekrizitat, Frankfurt, 1997, pp. 230 - 241. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jiec.1997.1.1.13

"The US Dioxin Inventory: Are There Missing Sources?" V. M. Thomas and T.G. Spiro. Environ. Sci. Technol.30(2):82A-85A, 1996 (pdf).

"Pilot Study of Sources of Lead Exposure in Moscow Russia," A. O. Orlova, D. I. Bannon, M. R. Farfel, V. M. Thomas, L. V. Aleschukin, V. V. Kudashov, J. P. Shine, G. I. Kruchkov. Environmental Geochemistry and Health 17:200-210, 1995.

"The Elimination of Lead in Gasoline." V. M. Thomas, Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 20:301-324, 1995 (pdf).

"An Estimation of Dioxin Emissions in the United States," V. M. Thomas and T.G. Spiro. Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry 50(1/2):1-37, 1995 (pdf).

Industrial Ecology and Global Change, R. Socolow, C. Andrews, F. Berkhout and V. Thomas, eds.  Cambridge University Press, 1994.  Co-author of the following chapters:
 "Emissions and Exposure to Metals: Cadmium and Lead," V. Thomas and T. Spiro.
 "The Industrial Ecology Agenda," C. Andrews, F. Berkhout and V. Thomas.
 "Soil as a Vulnerable Environmental System," J. Schnoor and V. Thomas.
 "Industrial Ecology in the Manufacturing of Consumer Products," W. France and
V. Thomas.