Environment/Energy

 

Promoting equity and justice in environment and energy policies through science and technology

Through an interdisciplinary approach, with the expertise of talented faculty affiliates, STPP strives to advance education, research, and community engagement to promote equity and justice in environmental and energy policy work. Our projects range from air quality studies in Detroit, Michigan, using Strava data to promote safer roads for bikers with disabilities, to reporting on advanced nuclear reactor technology’s implications on marginalized communities and much more. 

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Paving the Way: Taking Bold Action Toward Environmental Justice

In alignment with the University of Michigan’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium's 2025 theme of "Restless Dissatisfaction: An Urgent Call for the Pursuit of Justice and Equality, SEAS and STPP presented a panel discussion on January 27 that featured transformative leaders in environmental justice, energy and sustainability.
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Featured Project

Advanced Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Neutral Energy Future

STPP's Technology Assessment Project (TAP) research anticipates the implications of emerging technologies and uses these insights to develop better technology policies. A new project report is forthcoming which will explore governance frameworks that could help advanced nuclear energy to ameliorate — rather than exacerbate — social inequities and environmental injustices and is funded by a grant from the Graham Sustainability Institute’s Carbon Neutrality Acceleration Program (CNAP).
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  • Todd Allen, Chihiro Kikuchi Collegiate Professor and Glenn F. and Gladys H. Knoll Department Chair of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

    Shalanda H. Baker, Vice Provost for Sustainability and Climate Action

    Avik Basu, faculty member in the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)

    Rosina Bierbaum, Professor and Dean Emerita of the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment (now School for Environment and Sustainability)

    Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

    Bilal Butt, Associate Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability

    Michael T. Craig, Assistant Professor of Energy Systems at the School for Environment and Sustainability

    John DeCicco, research professor emeritus at the University of Michigan Energy Institute

    Denia Djokić, Assistant Research Scientist at the Fastest Path to Zero Initiative

    Rajiv Ghimire, faculty member in the School for Environment and Sustainability

    Robert Goodspeed, Chair and Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning

    Robert Hampshire, associate professor of public policy at the Ford School, a research associate professor in both the U-M Transportation Research Institute's (UMTRI) Human Factors group and Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS), and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE).

    Catherine Hausman, Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy

    Jennifer Haverkamp, Graham Family Director of the Graham Sustainability Institute, a professor from practice at Michigan Law School, and a professor of practice at the Ford School of Public Policy

    Devin Judge-Lord, assistant professor at the Ford School of Public Policy

    Mike Liemohn, Professor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

    Thomas P. Lyon, Dow Professor of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy

    Sarah Mills, Director of the Center for EmPowering Communities at the Graham Sustainability Institute and a Professor of Practice in the Urban & Regional Planning Program

    Barry Rabe, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emeritus; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy; Professor Emeritus of Environmental Policy; Professor Emeritus of the Environment; Professor Emeritus of Political Science

    Daniel Raimi, fellow at Resources for the Future and a lecturer at the Ford School of Public Policy

    Kaitlin Raimi, associate professor of public policy at the Ford School

    Tony Reames, Tishman Professor of Environmental Justice and Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability

    Perrin Selcer, Associate Professor of History and Program in the Environment, Director of the Science, Technology, and Society Program

    Mike Shriberg, Professor of Practice & Engagement in the School for Environment & Sustainability (SEAS) with concurrent appointments with the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research and Michigan Sea Grant

    Sita Syal, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering

    Parth Viashnav, Assistant Professor of Sustainable Systems, School for Environment and Sustainability

    Aditi Verma, Assistant Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

    James Wells, Professor of Physics

    Kyle Powys Whyte, George Willis Pack Professor; University Diversity & Social Transformation Professor; Professor of Philosophy; Tishman Center Faculty Director

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