“An Electricity Generation Planning Model Incorporating Demand Response,” Choi, D.-G. and V. M. Thomas. Energy Policy 42: 429-441, 2012.
“Least-Cost Network Evaluation of Centralized and Decentralized Contributions to Global Electrification,” Levin, T. and V. M. Thomas. Energy Policy, 41: 286-302, 2012.
“Statistical Evaluation of the Effect of Ethanol in US Corn Production: A Flexible Test for Independence on a Constrained Sum,” Abayomi, K., Luo, D. and Thomas, V. M. International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics 22 (S11): 105-126, 2011.
“Cars are Buildings: The Building-like Energy Use of Automobiles,” Thomas, V. M., Meier, A. K., Gunda, S. G., and Wenzel, T. P. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 16 (4): 341-345, 2011.
“State-scale Evaluation of Renewable Electricity Policy: The Role of Renewable Electricity Credits and Carbon Taxes,” Levin, T., Thomas, V. M., and Lee, A. J., Energy Policy 39(2): 950-960, 2011.
“The Environmental Potential of Reuse: An Application to Used Books,” V. M. Thomas, Sustainability Science, 6(1): 109-118, 2011.
“Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Analysis of Advanced Jet Propulsion Fuels: Fischer-Tropsch Based SPK-1 Case Study,” NETL, US Air Force., September 2011.
“Lifecycle Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions for an Ethanol Production Process Based on Blue-green Algae,” Luo, D., Z. Hu, D. G. Choi, V. M. Thomas, M. J. Realff, R. R. Chance, Environmental Science and Technology 44(22): 8670-8677, 2010.
“Lifecycle Assessment of the South African Sugar Industry,” Mashoko, L., C. Mbohwa, V. M. Thomas, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 53(6): 793-807, 2010.
“Gigaton Problems Need Gigaton Solutions,” Xu, M., J.C. Crittendon, Y. Chen, V. M. Thomas, D.S. Noonan, R. DesRoches, M.A. Brown, Environmental Science and Technology 44(11): 4037-4041, 2010.
“Relation of Biofuel to Bioelectricity and Agriculture: Food Security, Fuel Security, and Reducing Greenhouse Emissions,” V. M. Thomas, D. Choi, D. Luo, A. Okwo, J. H. Wang, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 87, 1140-1146, 2009.
“A Universal Code for Environmental Management of Products,” V. M. Thomas. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 53: 400-408, 2009.
“Framework and Guidance for Estimating Greenhouse Gas Footprints of Aviation Fuels,” NETL, U. S. Air Force, April 2009.
“Radio-Frequency Identification: Environmental Applications,” V. Thomas, Foresight in Governance Project. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2008.
“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.
"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.
"Theoretical Calculation of Product Contents: Battery and Cathode-Ray Tube Examples." Environmental Science and Technology 37, 2016-2019, 2003.
"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,
2003.
"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.