Maxwell School News and Commentary
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Sustainability Spectacle in the Gulf
Professor of Geography and the Environment Natalie Koch examines how sustainability spectacle ultimately obscures Gulf state leaders’ refusal to shift their economies and political systems away from fossil fuels, while simultaneously justifying yet more unsustainable development—just with a new green label. Published in Current History.
See related: Economic Policy, Government, Middle East & North Africa, Sustainability
Emerging Regulation of GHG Emissions in the Transportation-for-Hire Industry
Assistant Teaching Professor of Policy Studies Austin Zwick and alumna Karina Freeland '23 B.A. (PSt). investigate what conditions are needed for local government to take on leadership and policy innovation in environmental regulation. Published in Sustainability.
Koch Quoted in DeSmog Article on Saudi Arabia’s Neom Giga Project, Sustainability Claims
“When you are looking at the Gulf countries, you see that a lot of these sustainability projects are very large, and they’re very loud about them, but they hide the fact that, in fact, the rest of society is not at all sustainable,” says Natalie Koch, professor of geography and the environment.
See related: Government, Middle East & North Africa, Sustainability
Riverine Citizenship: A Bosnian City in Love with the River
In the book (Central European University Press, 2024), Azra Hromadžić, associate professor of anthropology, explores how residents of Bihać, a town in northwest Bosnia, mobilized to block construction of a hydroelectric dam on the Una River in 2015.
See related: Europe, Sustainability, Water
NSF Awards Saba Siddiki, Fellow Researchers, $1.5 Million to Study Bus Fleet Electrification
The team hopes to develop tools for effective and data-driven decision making and to assess collaborative governance in public bus fleet electrification.
See related: Government, Grant Awards, Sustainability, United States
Huber Quoted in The Guardian on How Renewable Energy Tax Credits Disproportionately Help the Wealthy
Matthew Huber, professor of geography and the environment spoke, spoke to The Guardian on the Inflation Reduction Act’s residential tax credits and how the programs have disproportionately benefited wealthier Americans.
See related: Energy, Environment, Sustainability, Taxation, United States
Huber Quoted in Cronkite News Article on the Paris Olympics as a Blueprint of Sustainability
Matthew Huber, professor of geography and the environment, highlights the infrastructural advantage France has to promote sustainability. “France is known for having one of the most decarbonized electric grids in the world because they have about 70% of their electricity coming from nuclear power, which is zero carbon energy,” Huber says.
See related: Energy, Europe, Infrastructure, Sustainability
Huber Article on the Politics of Building Published in Damage Magazine
“The turn to a ‘politics of building’ is a welcome change in environmental thinking, but the green Left is still at odds in important ways with the labor movement, which better understands what is needed for deep decarbonization and, most importantly, has the power to help bring it about,” writes Matthew Huber, professor of geography and the environment.
See related: Climate Change, Infrastructure, Labor, Sustainability, United States
The Dynamic Sustainability Lab: Creating a Sustainable Future
“We try to explain the environmental, economic and social benefits as well as possible unintended consequences and risks of the net-zero transition to decision makers,” says Jay Golden, founder and director of the lab and the Pontarelli Professor of Environmental Sustainability and Finance in the Maxwell School.
See related: Climate Change, Energy, Student Experience, Sustainability
Report Co-Authored by Golden on Economic Impact of Bio-based Products Highlighted by USDA
The report, based on 2021 data, showed that the biobased products industry continued to grow, even during the economic setbacks of the COVID-19 pandemic.
See related: Agriculture, Environment, Sustainability, United States