Water

Make the energy transition more equitable and possible

Dr. David Konisky, O'Neill School

Dr. Konisky studies U.S. environmental policy and politics, with particular emphasis on environmental and energy justice, regulation, federalism, and public opinion. He's especially interested in making the clean energy transition equitable, considering how energy and environmental policies affect disadvantaged and low-income communities.

He co-directs the Energy Justice Lab, a research collaboration between IU and UPenn where faculty and students focus on the social and environmental effects of the energy transition. They aim to inform policies that make the transition fair and beneficial for all.

Among many other climate justice issues, the team considers household energy insecurity and advocates for protecting residents from shutoffs during extreme heat. To that end, they created the Utility Disconnection Dashboard. They also have studied making electric cars more accessible for low-income groups. They've also published on environmental justice questions that stem from real-world policies, including the Green New Deal, Justice40, and state and local policies. He also leads IU's Environmental Justice Fellows program.

In the last 5 years, Dr. Konisky's work has been cited nearly 5,000 times. It's been published in journals that include the American Journal of Political Science, Climatic Change, Environmental Research Letters, Global Environmental Change, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Journal of Politics, and Nature Energy, among others. His research has been supported by the NSF, the McKinney Family Foundation, the EPA, and the Department of Energy, to name a few.

The author or editor of six books on environmental policy and politics, he also serves as the editor-in-chief of Environmental Politics. He holds the Lynton K. Caldwell professorship at the O'Neill School.

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Dr. Julio Postigo, Geography

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Andean and Arctic social-ecological systems • Local knowledge • Pastoralism and small farming • Sustainability • Climate Change • Social Dimensions of Global Environmental Change • Adaptation & Resilience • Cultural and Political Ecology • Social, Natural and GIS Methods I am currently working on: Local knowledge of Aymara farmers; Pastoral social-ecological systems; Environmental change and peasantry in the Cambodian lower Mekong; The AR6 of the IPCC WGII; The impacts of climate change and economic development on Arctic communities; Exploitation and alienation in organization of least developed countries.

He has served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, writing content related to impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. As part of this group, he was a lead author on the chapter about Central and South America, and also contributed to the chapter about terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. 

His work has also been published in Nature Sustainability, Y, and Z, among other journals. 

In the past five years, he's been a principal investigator on projects funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society.

 

He serves as the director for the minor on human dimensions of global change. 

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Kelly Eskew, Kelley School of Business

Head of the Institute, other stuff

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Dr. Eduardo Brondizio, Anthropology

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. The Volvo Prize.

He is the other affiliations.Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography and School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Director, Center for the Analysis of Social-Ecological Landscapes (CASEL) 

Scientific Committee, IPCC-ICOMOS/UNESCO

published in nature sustainability  Elected member, National Academy of Sciences. Section 64 – Human Environmental Sciences, Section 51 - Anthropology. Elected Fellow, International Science Council (ISC)

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Dr. Diana Ojeda, Geography, International Studies

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She is the director of the Ostrom Workshop Commons Program.

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Mary Embry, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture, + Design

focusing on sustainability, fair trade, and the materials supply chain

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director of undergraduate studies at eskenazi??

fair trade bloomington, global gifts, fair trade... travel????

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Dr. Brian Forist, School of Public Health, Health & Wellness Design

Visitor-centered, two-way interpretation through dialogue Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the outdoors and environmental professions

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