Description | Email jgrove91@uw.edu for Zoom link “The Paradoxical Environmental Consequences of Energy Efficiency Improvement” Speaker: Lazarus Adua, Department of Sociology, University of Utah Lazarus Adua is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Utah. His research focuses on the human dimensions of energy (energy inequality, the relative impacts of efficiency improvement and lifestyles on the environment, and the environmental consequences of renewable energy sources), the structural drivers of global environmental change, and local governments’ social, developmental, and environmentally significant policies. Lazarus Adua also conducts research on the environmental consequences of political-ideological views, focusing on political partisanship in the United States. He earned a doctoral degree in rural sociology from the Ohio State University. This event is part of the monthly Duck Family Colloquium Series, made possible by the generous support of Gary and Susan Duck, UW alumni and long-standing benefactors of the department. The series is managed by graduate students. For 2020-2021, Jeffrey Grove (Political Science Ph.D. Candidate) will serve as the Richard B. Wesley Fellow in Environmental Politics and Governance and the chair of the Duck Family Colloquium series. |
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