Energy Values Lab

  • The perceived risk of the Line 5 Pipeline and spills under ice
  • Farmers vs. Lakers: Agriculture, amenity, and community in predicting opposition to United States wind energy development
  • The promise and reality of social and cultural metrics
  • The energy crises revealed by COVID: Intersections of Indigeneity, inequity, and health
  • Energy policy for energy sovereignty: Can policy tools enhance energy sovereignty?
  • An online decision support tool to evaluate ecological weed management strategies
  • The social, economic and environmental benefits of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in Michigan.

    DISCLAIMER: I’m an applied decision researcher and professor for energy systems at Michigan State University.  My research focuses principally on helping people to identify their values, concerns and objectives and then engage the trade-offs between those values, concerns and objectives and the many options available. The trade-offs between purchasing and operating a conventional gasoline vehicle […]

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    October 31, 2017
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  • Interested in studying energy sustainability? Join me in the Department of Community Sustainability at Michigan State University.

    The Department of Community Sustainability (CSUS) at Michigan State University is an interdisciplinary department addressing contemporary issues of sustainability in agriculture, recreation, natural resources, and the environment. Recently the department expanded that focus to include energy!  Specifically, the department hired an assistant professor of sustainable energy systems.  This person–hint, it’s me!–is tasked with researching sustainable […]

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    August 29, 2017
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  • Ohio Deer Management Plan Stakeholder Engagement Process

    Ohio Deer Management Plan Stakeholder Engagement Process

    The ODNR Division of Wildlife is working with a diverse group of stakeholders to develop a Deer Management Plan that will provide a 10-year framework for managing huntable deer populations based on historical perspectives, stakeholder interests and science-based management. Using a process known as Structured Decision Making (SDM), representatives from stakeholder organizations are helping the […]

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    June 13, 2017
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  • Preferences and perceptions of green infrastructure: Blueprint Columbus

    Preferences and perceptions of green infrastructure: Blueprint Columbus

    In 2015, Columbus, Ohio submitted a Wet Weather Management Plan to the Ohio EPA entitled “Blueprint Columbus,” which would eliminate 28 miles of sanitary sewer overflow tunnels in favor of green infrastructure (GI) improvements including rain gardens. The mayor of Columbus has argued Blueprint Columbus would not only bring the city into EPA compliance, but […]

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    January 23, 2017
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  • Assessing non-market loss and damage in the context of climate change

    Assessing non-market loss and damage in the context of climate change

    This spring a group of twenty-four scientists from Australia, New Zealand, Ghana, United Kingdom, United States, and South Africa (Table 1) came together across disciplines to explore how loss and damage (L&D) is understood and experienced by particular groups of people in various geographic settings. We conducted a workshop in Perth, Australia, between 18th and […]

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    January 5, 2017
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  • There will be blood: Communicating climate change risk honestly in 2017 and beyond.

    There will be blood: Communicating climate change risk honestly in 2017 and beyond.

    Each December my colleagues and I travel to DC or somewhere far warmer like San Francisco or San Diego to meet and discuss the state of risk communication research.  One of the enduring foci of these meetings is climate change, and more specifically how we should go about communicating the risks of climate change and […]

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    December 16, 2016
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  • Structured decision support for organic farmers in the Midwest

    Structured decision support for organic farmers in the Midwest

    This December Robyn Wilson, Christian Beaudrie and I traveled to San Diego to report on a decision support framework we’re building to help organic farmers make ecological weed management decisions. This tool uses as its foundation mental models research done by Sarah Zwickle and the SDM principles that my colleagues and I rely on to […]

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    December 16, 2016
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  • Building a “values-informed” mental model for New Orleans climate risk management

    Building a “values-informed” mental model for New Orleans climate risk management

    Last spring, I traveled to New Orleans to meet with decision-makers and discuss efforts to manage the city’s sea-level rise and storm surge risks.  This followed a trip to interview residents and build a “values-informed” mental model, ViMM, which depicts their values as a function of specific climate risk factors and management strategies.  Our paper […]

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    May 6, 2016
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  • Facilitating ecological weed management decisions by assessing risk-benefit tradeoffs

    Facilitating ecological weed management decisions by assessing risk-benefit tradeoffs

    We used the mental models research method to generate a conceptual map of how Midwest farmers use knowledge, experience, and individual perceptions of weed-related risk to make weed management decisions. We discovered that Midwest farmer knowledge of ecological weed management practices is robust, and that the difficult trade-offs farmers make regarding cultivation, cover crops, and […]

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    April 11, 2016
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  • Decision support for developing energy strategies

    Decision support for developing energy strategies

    Policymakers and the public need a mechanism for making a series of difficult and interrelated choices over time, and research in decision science offers a promising way forward. The United States clearly needs a new energy strategy. In fact, many industrialized nations are in the same position. But this raises an obvious question: What is […]

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    April 11, 2016
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