Ingrid Behrsin
Biographic Data
| ID | 958341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ingrid Behrsin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ingrid |
| FAMILY NAME | Behrsin |
| SIGNATURE | BEHRSIN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
New political ecologies of renewable energy
The critique of fossil fuel regimes has been a foundational concern for the field of political ecology, in its drives to expose the injustices and harms of energy extractivism and its early warnings of the climate crisis. However, it is increasingly evident that renewable energy sources and their infrastructures will carry their own costs and trade-offs, and that critique, resistance and alternative movement-building are needed to forge a truly j…
Thirty states of renewability
Renewable energy advocates have positioned a wide array of technologically novel energy sources as fossil fuel alternatives. These efforts to usher in renewable energy transitions have long been shaped by definitional contestations. Political ecological scholarship tells us that such definitions are meaningful. Indeed, labeling energy sources as renewable has become a power-laden act, which may spark innovation, yet simultaneously creates opening…
Renewable energy for whom? A global systematic review of the environmental justice implications of renewable energy technologies
Contaminant, Commodity and Fuel
This article traces the flow of municipal solid waste from southern Italy through a waste-to-energy facility and district heating system in Austria, examining the roles that waste's transformation from contaminant to commodity to fuel plays in interconnected, distributed, and contested urbanization processes. It contends that, while metabolic circulation hides socioecological costs in one place to facilitate valorization in another, specific spat…
Green Energy from Garbage? A Case Study of Municipal Solid Waste’s Contested Inclusion in Maryland’s Renewable Portfolio Standard
Renewable portfolio standards (RPSs) are powerful state-level climate policy tools that set minimum renewable energy targets. They have been adopted by 29 states, in the United States (U.S.) as well as Washington, D.C., and have fueled much of the growth in the U.S. renewable energy sector. However, because these policy tools are state-driven, the technologies and fuel types included in each state’s RPS vary. In this article, I discuss the inclus…
Controversies of justice, scale, and siting
Rendering Renewable
Drawing on insights at the intersection of political ecology and studies that examine neoliberalism as an approach to scientific governance, this article interrogates the scientific rationales that underpin (1) waste incineration’s categorization as a type of renewable energy technology in the European Union (EU) and (2) the market expansions that enable the financial viability of the region’s waste-to-energy (WTE) industry. This investigation bu…
Left Coast Political Ecology
Left Coast Political Ecology (LCPE) is a network of undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and faculty engaged in a collective practice of political ecology grounded in strong connection to the "Left Coast" of North America. In this manifesto, we build on successful 2015 and 2018 workshops on the practice and value of political ecology today to communicate our origins, efforts, and ideas towards building a community of praxis …
Contested spaces and subjectivities of transit
New political ecologies of renewable energy
The critique of fossil fuel regimes has been a foundational concern for the field of political ecology, in its drives to expose the injustices and harms of energy extractivism and its early warnings of the climate crisis. However, it is increasingly evident that renewable energy sources and their infrastructures will carry their own costs and trade-offs, and that critique, resistance and alternative movement-building are needed to forge a truly j…
Renewable energy for whom? A global systematic review of the environmental justice implications of renewable energy technologies
Rendering Renewable
Drawing on insights at the intersection of political ecology and studies that examine neoliberalism as an approach to scientific governance, this article interrogates the scientific rationales that underpin (1) waste incineration’s categorization as a type of renewable energy technology in the European Union (EU) and (2) the market expansions that enable the financial viability of the region’s waste-to-energy (WTE) industry. This investigation bu…
Thirty states of renewability
Renewable energy advocates have positioned a wide array of technologically novel energy sources as fossil fuel alternatives. These efforts to usher in renewable energy transitions have long been shaped by definitional contestations. Political ecological scholarship tells us that such definitions are meaningful. Indeed, labeling energy sources as renewable has become a power-laden act, which may spark innovation, yet simultaneously creates opening…
Contaminant, Commodity and Fuel
This article traces the flow of municipal solid waste from southern Italy through a waste-to-energy facility and district heating system in Austria, examining the roles that waste's transformation from contaminant to commodity to fuel plays in interconnected, distributed, and contested urbanization processes. It contends that, while metabolic circulation hides socioecological costs in one place to facilitate valorization in another, specific spat…
Controversies of justice, scale, and siting
Contested spaces and subjectivities of transit
Left Coast Political Ecology
Left Coast Political Ecology (LCPE) is a network of undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and faculty engaged in a collective practice of political ecology grounded in strong connection to the "Left Coast" of North America. In this manifesto, we build on successful 2015 and 2018 workshops on the practice and value of political ecology today to communicate our origins, efforts, and ideas towards building a community of praxis …
Contested spaces and subjectivities of transit
Green Energy from Garbage? A Case Study of Municipal Solid Waste’s Contested Inclusion in Maryland’s Renewable Portfolio Standard
Renewable portfolio standards (RPSs) are powerful state-level climate policy tools that set minimum renewable energy targets. They have been adopted by 29 states, in the United States (U.S.) as well as Washington, D.C., and have fueled much of the growth in the U.S. renewable energy sector. However, because these policy tools are state-driven, the technologies and fuel types included in each state’s RPS vary. In this article, I discuss the inclus…
Controversies of justice, scale, and siting
Rendering Renewable
Drawing on insights at the intersection of political ecology and studies that examine neoliberalism as an approach to scientific governance, this article interrogates the scientific rationales that underpin (1) waste incineration’s categorization as a type of renewable energy technology in the European Union (EU) and (2) the market expansions that enable the financial viability of the region’s waste-to-energy (WTE) industry. This investigation bu…
Left Coast Political Ecology
Left Coast Political Ecology (LCPE) is a network of undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and faculty engaged in a collective practice of political ecology grounded in strong connection to the "Left Coast" of North America. In this manifesto, we build on successful 2015 and 2018 workshops on the practice and value of political ecology today to communicate our origins, efforts, and ideas towards building a community of praxis …
Renewable energy for whom? A global systematic review of the environmental justice implications of renewable energy technologies
Contaminant, Commodity and Fuel
This article traces the flow of municipal solid waste from southern Italy through a waste-to-energy facility and district heating system in Austria, examining the roles that waste's transformation from contaminant to commodity to fuel plays in interconnected, distributed, and contested urbanization processes. It contends that, while metabolic circulation hides socioecological costs in one place to facilitate valorization in another, specific spat…
New political ecologies of renewable energy
The critique of fossil fuel regimes has been a foundational concern for the field of political ecology, in its drives to expose the injustices and harms of energy extractivism and its early warnings of the climate crisis. However, it is increasingly evident that renewable energy sources and their infrastructures will carry their own costs and trade-offs, and that critique, resistance and alternative movement-building are needed to forge a truly j…
Thirty states of renewability
Renewable energy advocates have positioned a wide array of technologically novel energy sources as fossil fuel alternatives. These efforts to usher in renewable energy transitions have long been shaped by definitional contestations. Political ecological scholarship tells us that such definitions are meaningful. Indeed, labeling energy sources as renewable has become a power-laden act, which may spark innovation, yet simultaneously creates opening…
Political science (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (6 works) · Renewable energy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Energy policy (5 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (5 works)