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At the University of Denver, the faculty of I2E2 contribute research expertise and scholarly talent to framing critical questions regarding the environment. Leaders in their disciplines, I2E2 faculty cross departmental boundaries on research teams and instruction on environmental challenges like:
- Climate change as a social problem
- Ecological systems, both forest and tropical
- Environmental attitudes and values
- Environmental conflict and dispute resolution
- Environmental governance through expert networks
- Environmental history
- Environmental land-use and developmental impacts
- Environmental leadership and public policy
- Ethics and values in sustainable development
- Global environmental regulation
- International environmental law and policy
- Public participation in environmental decision-making
- Renewable energy technology
- Sustainable community development
Examples of Specific Research Projects
- Scholars of the Montreal Protocol 2001 Conference Report—Eight Key Findings and Lessons Learned from the Montreal Protocol Regarding Successful Implementation of Global Environmental Treaties
- Opening the Black Box of Firm Decision Making about Energy Efficiency
- Air Quality and Individual Behavioral Change
- Ozone Connections: Expert Networks, Global Community, and the Construction of Global Regulatory Meaning
- Soil nutrients, people, livestock and wildlife in rangelands of Kenya
- Evaluating livestock-wildlife trade-offs: Valuing land-use options for semi-pastoralists adjacent to Nairobi National Park
- Drive-by Motor Vehicle Emissions: Immediate Feedback in Reducing Air Pollution
"Think and Do Tank"
I2E2 participates in a "think and do" tank with the Intermodal Transportation Institute, the Institute for Ethics and Values, and the Center for Public Policy and Contemporary Issues, defining explaining and exploring the key issues of present-day life.
REE-The Renewable Energy Exploratorium Project
Begun in 1996–97, the Renewable Energy Exploratorium, Lumenluminis, was a cooperative educational project on renewable energy for the high school community in Colorado. It was designed to promote the use of renewable energy technologies imparting an understanding of
- The role of energy in society
- The environmental challenges associated with the use of fossil fuels
- How renewable energies work
- The importance of efficiency and energy savings
- The connection between social values and technological options.
- The options
designed by Dr. Urbano fra Paleo from Galicia, Spain.
The REE Project hosted secondary school students to campus for laboratories on social science and the environment.
Implemented in 1997-98 with the Department of Sociology, this laboratory is a learning center representative of the efforts of I2E2 to reach across disciplines to involve faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates. The project partnered the Departments of Sociology and the Biological Sciences with Leaders in Learning/CASSI, a consortium of Sheridan, Englewood, and Denver Public Schools and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Laboratory modules included Energy Use & Renewable Energy Alternatives; Community Values and Public Choices; Sustainable Development, Environment and Population; and Women and the Environment.
New Book Reviews
Daniel Lee Kleinman (ed.) Science, Technology, and Democracy Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.
Steinar Andresen, Tora Skodvin, Arild Underdal, Jorgen Wettestad. 2000. Science and politics in international environmental regimes: Between integrity and involvement. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press.
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