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Visiting Prof. Michael Lorr's Research Article Published
Visiting Professor Michael Lorr's recent research article has been published in Sustainable Energy Development: Technology and Investment.
Sustainable Energy Development: Technology and Investment offers analyses of how global society is trying to shift towards a more environmentally minded kind of capitalism—going carbon free. To shift gears at such a fast pace, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emphasized in 2023 that at least $2.4 trillion US will need to be invested globally on average in green technologies and clean energy annually to correct for already occurring harm and to prevent further climate change. This book’s nine chapters tell how ramping up spending, investing, and programming is going.
In the chapter titled, “Moving Michigan Towards Just Building, Housing, Energy Production, Distribution, and Storage,” author Michael J. Lorr tells the story of how multiple state, industry, non-profit, and community activist stakeholders created the statewide climate change investment policy now known as MI Healthy Climate Plan over the course of 6 months of open meetings. This level of investment will certainly benefit some, will it also ameliorate longstanding climate-based classed, raced, gendered, and colonial injustices?
Link to purchase and learn more: Sustainable Energy Development: Technology and Investment - 9781666965810 (rowman.com)
Interest Area(s)
Sociology, Environmental Studies
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