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Viewing experts on: Sustainability
Bob Brecha
Bob Brecha
Director of Sustainability Program; Hanley Sustainability Institute, Joint Appointments in Department of Physics and School of Engineering, Renewable and Clean Energy Program

Areas of expertise: sustainability, energy and the environment. From 2006 to 2017 he was a regular visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. Since 2018 he has been affiliated with Climate Analytics, including a two-year European Union Marie Curie Fellowship to research sustainable energy access and system transformation in least-developed countries and small island developing states. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Jun-Ki Choi
Jun-Ki Choi
Associate Professor; Director, Industrial Assessment Center (UD-IAC)

Areas of expertise: sustainable manufacturing process, energy efficiency, design for environment, life cycle assessment, end-of-life management, sustainable energy infrastructure design, energy/environmental policy design. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Kevin P. Hallinan
Kevin P. Hallinan
Professor

Areas of expertise: energy efficiency and savings, sustainability, energy audits, renewable energy, energy data analytics. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Ben McCall
Ben McCall
Professor of Sustainability and Chemistry

Areas of expertise: sustainability, energy and the environment. McCall is among five authors of an essay to in the journal Energy Research & Social Science that cautions current levels of worldwide economic growth, energy use and resource consumption will overshoot Earth's finite limits. The essay - "Modernity is Incompatible with Planetary Limits: Developing a PLAN for the Future" - also announces the establishment of a network of scholars and researchers to promote the understanding of planetary limits, envision scenarios for humanity to thrive within planetary limits, better educate college students about these challenges, and advise government officials and communities in developing effective responses. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Zachary Piso
Zachary Piso
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Director of Facilitating Impactful Research at Hanley Sustainability Institute; Director of Rivers Institute

Areas of expertise: the roles values and ethics play in environmental science, policy and management; processes to facilitate public participation in research and decision-making that address our pressing sustainability challenges; ethical questions arising in food systems research, including an ongoing study of ecological citizenship and environmental governance in Rust Belt urban agriculture.

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