Ian Smith
Ian Smith received a Ph.D. from the Department of Earth & Environment at Boston University in spring 2023. He graduated from Boston University in 2017 with a major in Environmental Science and minor in Economics. Ian is a research scientist at Boston University’s Earth & Environment Department and is the instructor of BU URBAN’s Urban […]
Benjamin Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool is the Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment. He works as a researcher and consultant on issues pertaining to global energy policy and politics, energy security, energy justice, climate change mitigation, and climate change adaptation. More specifically, his […]
Ian Sue Wing
Recent research by Professor Ian Sue Wing includes representing endogenous technological change in climate policy models through general equilibrium approaches. Findings include: The impact on the costs of GHG abatement of the accumulation and substitution of knowledge in an intertemporal setting. The effects of future markets and competition for inputs on the timing and rate […]
Julia Wagner
Urban H Interests: Heat, Housing, Health Dr. Wagner’s research interests focus on how cities design and implement regulations and incentives to lower residential building emissions, particularly making residential decarbonization more accessible to low- and moderate-income households.