BIE Faculty Roundtable: Policy Architectures for Green Innovation and Justice

Policy Architectures for Green Innovation and Justice
David Winickoff (lead faculty), Jason Corburn, Isha Ray, Louse Fortmann, Allen Goldstein, Cori Hayden, Alastair Iles, Carolyn Merchant, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Charis Thomson

Join us for the Green Innovation and Justice Roundtable seminars on Feb. 18 and 19, click here for more information.

Innovation and technological advances clearly have a role in addressing serious environmental problems. However, the mere creation of technologies guaranties neither their effective deployment, nor an equitable distribution of the risks and benefits. "Green Innovation" is not doing enough to address the critical inequalities across race, gender, and class that exist with regard to environmental goods and services. This roundtable will focus on developing a critical approach to innovation that will bring procedural and distributive justice within green technology development and transfer to the fore. The roundtable will target technological and urban policy innovations in areas such as environmental and health monitoring, water and energy provision and distribution, and green collar job development.