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An Energy Policy Seminar featuring Holly Buck, a 2024-25 Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellow and Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo. Drawing on mixed-methods research conducted in 2023-2024 that involved interviews with community leaders, focus groups with the public, and surveys in five different regions of the United States, Buck will discuss some of the common benefits people identified as desirable, and the obstacles they saw to making those benefits real.
About the Speaker:
Holly Jean Buck is an Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo. She is an environmental social scientist and human geographer whose research focuses on public engagement with emerging climate and energy technologies. She holds a Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University. Currently, she is a 2024-25 Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellow at Harvard University, where she is working on a book about rural futures.
For more information: belfercenter.org/event/public-perceptions-benefits-and-risks-path-net-zero
An Energy Policy Seminar featuring Holly Buck, a 2024-25 Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellow and Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo. Drawing on mixed-methods research conducted in 2023-2024 that involved interviews with community leaders, focus groups with the public, and surveys in five different regions of the United States, Buck will discuss some of the common benefits people identified as desirable, and the obstacles they saw to making those benefits real.
About the Speaker:
Holly Jean Buck is an Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo. She is an environmental social scientist and human geographer whose research focuses on public engagement with emerging climate and energy technologies. She holds a Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University. Currently, she is a 2024-25 Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellow at Harvard University, where she is working on a book about rural futures.
For more information: belfercenter.org/event/public-perceptions-benefits-and-risks-path-net-zero
