Associate Professor of Environmental Planning, Griffith University
Jason Byrne is an urban geographer. He undertook his PhD at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) where he was a fellow in the Center for Sustainable Cities. Jason is also a Senior Fellow with the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies. He was previously a town planner and environmental policy officer with the Western Australian government. Jason's research interests include: urban nature and urban ecology; park and green-space planning; environmental equity and justice; open space and residential density; ecological sustainability; and climate change justice.
What about the people missing out on renewables? Here's what planners can do about energy justice
Sep 11, 2017 08:53 am UTC| Insights & Views
The rapid shift to new energy sources is outpacing land use planning in cities. As interest in renewable energy burgeons, another concern has emerged energy justice. Improvements in renewable energy generation, energy...
If planners understand it's cool to green cities, what's stopping them?
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