Janelle Knox-Hayes
Professor of Economic Geography and Planning at MIT School of Architecture and Planning
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MIT School of Architecture and Planning
Janelle Knox-Hayes is the Lister Brothers Professor of Economic Geography and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. She holds a visiting research fellowship at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University. Her research focuses on the ways in which social and environmental systems are governed under changing temporal and spatial scales as a consequence of globalization. She has studied the political and economic interface of financial markets and environmental systems and how individuals and organizations plan and make decisions under conditions of socio-economic uncertainty. Her latest project examines how social values shape sustainable development. Janelle has been the recipient of an SSRC Abe Fellowship for study of environmental finance in the Asia-Pacific and a Fulbright Fellowship for study of sustainable decision-making in Iceland. Janelle is the author of a number of peer-reviewed works in prestigious journals and presses. She serves as an editor of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.
Prior to joining DUSP, Janelle was an associate professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. She completed her BA (Summa Cum Laude) in International Affairs, Ecology, and Japanese Language and Civilizations from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2004 and her MSc (with Distinction) and DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2006 and 2009 respectively. Before starting graduate school, Janelle worked as an energy analyst for the United States Government Accountability Office. While in graduate school, she also worked as an energy analyst for New Energy Finance.
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Janelle Knox-Hayes - A Culturally Specific Response to Climate Change
A Conversation with Janelle Knox-Hayes
Janelle Knox-Hayes - Understanding and Contextualizing Technocratic Approaches to Climate Change
Technology Day 2019: MIT on Climate Change - Janelle Knox-Hayes
Janelle Knox-Hayes - Understanding U.S. Climate Change Policy
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